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Doom running in task manager with each CPU core as a pixel, supposedly
In this footage, a supercomputer's CPU cores — nearly 900 of them — are neatly lined up in the Task Manager. The Doom logo appears, generated by code that targets each core. Then Doom itself plays,...
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After 27 years, Doom receives official widescreen update
Classic first-person shooter Doom is 27 years old, but still receiving official updates. A few months ago, it received 60fps support. Now it's going widescreen. [via The Verge] For the first time in an...
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Doom playing on a pregnancy test
Foone recently examined the guts of a digital pregnancy test to find that it was a fully-functional system on a chip that simply looks at the lines on a standard test strip and reports what it sees....
View Article30 years of Japanese metal from Ningen Isu
It's my new favorite jam, Ningen Isu ("The Human Chair"), a Japanese doom/heavy metal band of three lifelong friends from Aomori, Japan. The band's character-costumes are influenced by Kiss (their...
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How to power your calculator with potatoes so you can play DOOM
I have fond memories of hacking my TI-83+ graphing calculator in high school to play Wolfenstein 3D and other games (because killing Nazis > paying attention in algebra). In the video above,...
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"Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in
I've argued that the video-game "Doom" is a sort of cultural version of Turing Completeness. Given that we're jamming computers and screens into just about any device these days, inevitably (and...
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Doom-themed captcha
Instead of identifying traffic signals or deciphering zalgo-text, the next captcha you encounter online may have you playing Doom—or at least shooting a few zombiemen in a box while listening to At...
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Doom running on an Ikea lamp controller
UPDATE: The creator removed the video and article from the internet: "Sorry I had a request to remove this post and all public material :(" [Reddit] The controller inside Ikea's $35 Trådfri lighting...
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Behold the Doom Phone: classic shooter running on a business telephone set
Software engineer Neil Bostian got Doom running on a Polycom VVX600 business telephone set, and explains in exhaustive detail how the feat was accomplished. In late 2017 I was a new hire on a small...
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New DOOM mod sends you to the UK to battle Demon Margaret Thatcher from Hell
THE DEAD SPEAK!The world has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of revenge in the sinister voice of the late BARONESS MARGARET THATCHER. Faced with the return of one of humanity's greatest...
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Doom rendered as checkboxes
Doom may be played in the web browser, of course, but now it may also be rendered in the web browser as a vast collection of checkboxes. You can play now (desktop Chrome/Edge only), view the source...
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This guy built a set-up so his rat could play Doom
Viktor Tóth made a giant trackball and set his rat on top of it so it could enjoy running through the corridors of Doom. TL;DR I built a VR setup for rodents from scratch and trained three rats in an...
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Playing Doom on the teeniest-tiniest gaming machine
Our pals over at Adafruit have been working on super-small, super-sharp and readable DOOM gaming device (it does more than DOOM, but hey … DOOM!). Phil Torrone writes: DOOM is often the "hello world"...
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Stop doomscrolling and scroll through Doom
DOOMscrolling is a Twitter bot that posts frames from the classic shooter Doom. More than 15,000 frames will be posted in due course and all you have to do is scroll though it: a welcome break from...
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Doom running on a Doom
Getting classic shooter Doom running on things you didn't even know were computers (lamps, business desk phones, etc) is a genre unto itself. But now kgsws has outdone them all, by getting Doom running...
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Doom running in Windows Notepad at 60 fps
Samperson hacked Doom and Notepad together somehow and recorded the results running at a glorious 60 frames per second. Questions abound; answers are forthcoming. i'll release it soon. doom inside of...
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A classical musician listens to Black Sabbath for the first time and analyzes...
I think we can all agree that reactions videos are, at best, a mixed bag. Of all the genre, the ones I personally enjoy the most are classical musicians and composers reacting to musical genres that...
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Parents: Beware of Doom in your kids' candy this Halloween
Component suppliers to the makerverse, Adafruit Industries, have done it again in releasing a cool and funny electronics project in search of meme status. Forget the fear-mongering, nothingburger...
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Doom music legend Mick Gordon denounces the executive at iD Software who...
When the official soundtrack to Doom Eternal was released, fans noticed that it sounded weird and crappy. The game's producer at iD software, Marty Stratton, posted a statement (to the game's fan...
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The Christmas tree ornament of Doom
How cool is this? It's a 3D printed retro IBM PC. On it's working color monitor it displays a fully working version of Doom housed on an ESP32 chip inside.Details of the build can be found here. [Via...
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Someone just created a House of Leaves-style DOOM mod
Earlier this month, a user called Veddge shared a new DOOM mod skin called "MyHouse." The map was supposedly created in tribute to a dear friend who had passed away — but the eerily, richly detailed...
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Turns out the Amiga was powerful enough to run DOOM after all!
The Commodore Amiga wowed with its spectacular graphics in the mid-1980s, but by the mid-1990s its lack of upgrades and aging CPU ceded the 3D gaming revolution to Windows PCs. As John Carmack famous...
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Play classic DOS games online
DOS Deck offers a selection of classic DOS games online to play in the browser. You can do this elsewhere, already, but the simple, just-works, controller-friendly user interface is the attraction....
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Doom running as Console.log() output in the Chrome web browser
Doom runs on many things, among them that little window of debugging information that web developers use to try and figure out why the Javascript isn't doing anything. Id software gave us DOOM....
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Doom on Husqvarna lawnmowers
The good news: Doom is coming to Husqvarna's lawnmowers, where it belongs. The update will be available exclusively for owners of Husqvarna Automower® NERA models. You can sign up now to play from 9...
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Doom running on a toothbrush
Doom runs on all sorts of things, from web browser logs to lawnmowers. It now runs on toothbrushes, too, thanks to Aaron Christophel. Doom runs rather well on the gadget, which features an ESP32-C3...
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Non-Euclidean Doom, where the value of pi is not 3.14159
Welcome to "Non-Euclidean Doom," where circles aren't anymore. Jump to 7:33 in the video embedded below for the action. With pi equalling 3, "the walls are a little off, and things are not moving as...
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How to play DOOM on your fleshlight
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should! Perhaps you're a fan of, erm, first-person shooters. Or you're really fond of hearing a...
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Margaret Thatcher-themed DOOM mod removed
Back in 2021, I wrote about a custom DOOM mod that introduced a new Big Bad into the game that was even more horrific than a Martian hell beast: Margaret Thatcher. From the blurb: THE DEAD SPEAK! The...
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Doom for Nintendo Alarmo
GaryOderNichts, a hacker working on Nintendo's Alarmo alarm clock, has gotten Doom running on it. The classic threshold of functionality for owned hardware, Doom runs fine on the tiny bedside...
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