Someone Gets Doom to Run on A Text-Based Terminal
It's hard to imagine that when the first game was released nearly 30 years ago, the Doom franchise would not only be thriving, but would still have a dedicated modding community tinkering with the classic title. As one of the most innovative first-person shooters of all time, id Software's influential series laid the groundwork for the genre when it was first finding its feet. Now, all these years later, it's still beloved by millions of gamers, and not only are there people still modding the game in numerous ways, there are those who are looking to see what unusual devices will run it.
Posting to Reddit recently, user wojtek-graj has managed to get the original Doom to run on a text-based terminal, with the visuals being constructed entirely from ASCII characters. A short clip shows one of the levels of the game running smooth as butter, and while the graphics are made up entirely of symbols rather than pixels, it's immediacy recognizable what's being shown. The user also includes a link in the thread for anyone who wishes to port the game themselves.
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It goes without saying that players will need a copy of Doom itself. However, the instructions do say that a shareware version of Doom will also work. For those who are perhaps a little younger, shareware worked in a similar way to a demo, in that it allowed fans to play a small chunk of the game before the full release, or it would be a trial version of the finished product which the user would then pay for at the end if they wished. The only downside to this text-based terminal port of the game is that it doesn't come with sound.
Naturally, given how old it is, this is not the first time people have
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