(opens in a new tab) (Opens in a new tab)Ĭhiet is no stranger to utilising his coding powers for silly software shenanigans. 'finally, i created the ideal way to play.
this is exactly what it looks like,' he wrote. 'this is fully playable interactive live, zero fakery. According to Chiet, the footage has not been sped up, and Notepad's code has not been modified or tampered with.
Sam Chiet shared his achievement on Twitter, posting a video of Doom running on Notepad at 60 frames per second in fuzzy black and white ASCII art.
Humankind's hubris continues to twist the natural order, accumulating a debt that must one day come due. A developer has made Doom run in Windows Notepad, the bare-bones text editor that was absolutely not designed to run video games.
