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  • Re: Doom really can run on anything

    From plateshutoverlock@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Jul 4 10:34:26 2023
    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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