It’s Now Possible to Play Doom in BIOS

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Many would find it quite difficult to come across a gamer who hasn't played at least one Doom game in their life. They may be out there, but they are a rare breed. As part of the isekai genre of video games, games in which the protagonist is transported to another world, the original 1993 entry is an iconic part of the industry, still influencing to this day. Along its journey, many have made numerous attempts to install and play the game on some strange devices and systems.

While Doom can already be officially played on different consoles and machines, someone has now made it possible to load the game up before a computer even properly boots into an operating system, such as Windows. Essentially, it makes the id Software classic FPS compatible with a BIOS-based system, with the project being called «CoreDOOM.» A report from Phoronix says that the latest version of Coreboot, an open-source Basic Input/Output System that has support for Payloads, has just been released. Through customization implementation, version 4.17 now allows users to boot up Doom.

Someone Gets Doom to Run on A Text-Based Terminal

There are a number of caveats to doing so, however. For one, there is no sound, will only support PS/2 keyboards rather than USB, and will also apparently freeze a user's system when they exit the game. That aside, it's one of many other examples of people getting Doom to run in unusual ways. In the past, people have got the game to run on pregnancy tests, smart fridges, in ASCII terminals, and there was even an instance in which it was possible for people on Twitter to come together and play it through simple commands.

Not to mention the sheer number of modifications and custom add-ons that fans have been implementing since