It’s wild what people can achieve with a bit of willpower and knowhow. Legendary first-person shooter DOOM has been ported to everything from Casio Calculators to fridge freezers – but even we’re surprised to see it running relatively well in Microsoft Notepad. To be clear, that’s notepad.exe – the exact same program included with your Windows computer.
Obviously there are caveats: the image is constructed using characters, so it’s not the clearest of pictures. And while it’s running at 60 frames-per-second, it does need to refresh at points, resulting in a bit of a flickering effect. But what did you expect? It’s still outputting the image through Microsoft Notepad – truly wild!
It’s especially impressive when you consider that, in 1993 – less than 30 years ago – this was one of the most cutting-edge games on the market. The title was eventually ported to the PS1 in 1995, which was a pretty solid conversion for the time. Nowadays, it’s become a bit of a meme to get DOOM running anywhere and everywhere, but it’s still impressive to see what can be achieved.
[source youtube.com]
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Truly insane. I wouldn’t even know where to begin.
Looking forward to Skyrim Notepad edition
I imagine that now they have worked it, any game could run on it?
Can’t wait to play Wild Hearts on this
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@kyleforrester87 hahaha
@kyleforrester87 haha,that made me laugh.
I wonder how it works technically, I assume a different program runs the game and handles user input and injects the "image" to Notepad
I wonder if it can run in Paint? 😆
But they can't get PS3 emulation running on PS5?
@StrickenBiged 😄 the obligatory ps5ps3emu comment. Nice one dude(tte).
There's a venn diagram of people who think PS5 is a diety trapped in a machine and of people who think PS3 was a glorified TI calculator. Smack right in the middle are those convinced that PS3 can be effectively emulated on PS5.
@TheDudeElDuderino I was being facetious, glad you enjoyed it.
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