On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 8:44:30=E2=80=AFPM UTC-7, Ant wrote:

They need to go more! :)=20
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:=20

Doom on PC. Doom on Windows. Doom on Mac. Doom on Unix. Doom on the=20 SNES. Doom on the Saturn. Doom on PS1. Doom on Java-phones. Doom on=20 Sansa ClipZip. Doom on Zune. Doom on network routers. Doom on a=20 smart-fridge. Doom on digital camera. Doom on a cash register. Doom=20
runs on everything.=20

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But there's always been one platform nobody ever asked, "Can Doom run=

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on this?" And that was Doom itself. Can Doom run... on Doom?=20

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Yup.=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dc6hnQ1RKhbo=20

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Thanks to a code-execution exploit, it's now actually possible to=20
launch Doom... in Doom itself. This isn't a specially modified version=

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of Doom (well, other than a WAD that overwrites key variable to launch=

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an external program); the core executable code is untouched. You can=20 just watch the demos play out, or switch to the embedded version and=20 play it full-screen. It really is Doom inside of Doom.=20

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Sadly, the video doesn't answer if Doom can play inside of Doom inside=

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of Doom. How deep down the rabbit hole can we go?!?=20

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This isn't really "Doom running on Doom", like it being able to fire up
a copy of itself to play on an in game/in world terminal. It's just causing=
the OS
to launch a second copy of the game.

Now if someone could port a copy of Dosbox into GZdoom or something and
enable the dos version to be playable inside the game itself, I would
be much more iimpressed. But why stop there? How about a slightly
modified E1M1 that has a working computer terminal and firing
up Quake inside it? :-)

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So many spams, craziness, and known people's deaths. :( Quiet yesterday f=

or this old ant. Another Microsoft update day! Apple will do theirs soon.=
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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And now we're getting Doom to run on rats.

Well, okay, technically it's the rats that are running Doom.
Apparently we're teaching the vermin how to play the game (with the
cutest little wrap-around screens!), and they've learned how to shoot
things now.*

Scientists, what are you doing? Do you want to breed Skaven? Because
this is how you start breeding Skaven! Stop it!

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* article here: https://www.tomshardware.com/virtual-reality/rats-are-still-being-taught-to-play-doom-now-with-a-curved-amoled-and-a-shoot-button

Still?!?!? I have a mouse friend who plays video games like DOOM. I am
an ant that used to be a DOOMaholic. Proofs: https://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/doom2/j2doom/j2doom.html I didn't
need scientists to play DOOM! /s
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