Laden down by the DOOM crew

December 11, 2023 12:24 PM

To celebrate the 30th birthday of DOOM, here's a thread of everything that I've found that DOOM can run on. Some are real, some... maybe not. It's up to you to figure out which 😉 [X; nitter]
posted by chavenet (14 comments total)

I recently told my niece (14) and nephew (12) about how when my friends and I wanted to play Doom head to head in 1994/5 we had to move two of my housemates' computers into the same room and physically hook them up to each other. I went on to explain that this was such a sweet set-up at the time that people from other houses would come over to play, too, even though everyone had to wait and take turns because only two of us could play at once.

They...had a hard time getting their heads around any of that.
posted by The Card Cheat at 12:37 PM on December 11, 2023 [9 favorites]

parents, please be careful this halloween. i found a chocolate bar running a copy of doom inside of it (nitter)
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 12:45 PM on December 11, 2023 [7 favorites]

(2DOOM is a cute tribute that was shared here back in 2019.)
posted by box at 12:46 PM on December 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

Not listed, yet real: Doom on a single LEGO brick (30s youtube video, more).
posted by _Lasar at 1:46 PM on December 11, 2023 [5 favorites]

Some of these seem like cheating, e.g. Doom on NES is actually a Raspberry Pi hidden in the cartridge, cleverly using the NES as a display. Not sure how to feel about this: it's cool, but it wouldn't have been possible with period hardware.
posted by qxntpqbbbqxl at 3:17 PM on December 11, 2023 [5 favorites]

Thanks OP for providing the Nitter link. For those who haven't figured this out yet ... Twitter links don't work if you're not logged in, ever since the company's new Chief Trolling Officer executed his latest smashy-smashy facepalm move on June 30th. Fortunately, Nitter is a service that replicates Twitter content without login, although I'm sure there are other reasons it was created. Search MeFi for "nitter", it's been discussed here before, especially over the past year.

To use it, take any "twitter.com" URL and replace that part with "nitter.net". OMG I have replaced "com" with "net" and "tw" with "n" soooo many effing times over the last six months. Thanks, jerk.

Further, though, there are lots of Nitter mirrors (instances) out there, so if one goes down you have others. As it happens, nitter.net is not providing the images in this thread, so here's one of the US mirrors: nitter.1d4.us .

Here is the OPP's link from all three services:
https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse/status/1733921349356146787
https://nitter.net/Lord_Arse/status/1733921349356146787
https://nitter.1d4.us/Lord_Arse/status/1733921349356146787

Certainly one of those three will give you all the images, but if not then check the "instances" link above and find another mirror. Now back to chuckling at the Doom implementations ...
posted by intermod at 3:28 PM on December 11, 2023 [4 favorites]

Here's a bit of grim MF DOOM to help celebrate
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 4:28 PM on December 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

OMG I have replaced "com" with "net" and "tw" with "n" soooo many effing times

I just found this bookmarklet to automate the process. You just make a bookmark on your bookmark bar, replace the location with the javascript code, and then when you're on a twitter page, click the button you've made and it'll take you to the nitter mirror.

When I tested just now, it took me to nitter.it and it didn't work, so I removed that the other weird one from the first set of square brackets so it only goes to nitter.net. Seems to work great!
posted by msbrauer at 4:46 PM on December 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

The doom chocolate bar link above doesn't have video that time adafruit did it, there was video

I helped with this project (built it for the specific microcontroller board inside). This was not playable doom, but it really did run the doom demo level.
posted by the antecedent of that pronoun at 6:48 PM on December 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

Carmack & Romero did a Twitch stream :|
If you like DOOM Divine Frequency is a crazy demo using GZDoom with all the feels (not affiliated, but would like to be)
posted by ryoshu at 7:41 PM on December 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

Not knowing how to actually test computers in the mid-1990s, I would just install Doom. Sometime in the mid 1990s my dad redirected some first gen Pentium desktops from the trash heap at work to be donated to my school. Along the way, they had a brief stopover at our house for me to make sure they worked. I didn't know the first thing about benchmarking or even what it meant for a computer to not "work", so I just installed Doom. If it ran Doom, it worked.

Those 60mhz P5 CPUs blew away our own jankily upgraded socket 3 486 and Doom ran soooo smooth. Ironically this was only a couple months before Quake was released and 3D cards became a thing, so gaming-wise it might have been the only time I've felt like I had a top-tier machine.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:28 AM on December 12, 2023

<derail> Way down the thread from the original tweeter: Well, this went nuts. Even some comments from Elon Musk. If he thinks this is a badge of honour, he ought to have a look at some of the other people Musk has been amplifying recently. </derail>
posted by Cardinal Fang at 9:40 AM on December 12, 2023

Back on topic: Also missing is DOOM on a Samsung Smart Fridge.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 9:45 AM on December 12, 2023 [1 favorite]

I played Knee Deep In The Dead when I was 10 or 11 and it had such a major impact on me. I still remember my friends watching me trying to navigate a maze and we all screamed when I ran headfirst into a pinky. Good times.

That being said, Doom 2 is overrated. Most of the levels are OK-to-fine and all the city levels are trash. The super shotgun is also the most overrated weapon in all of gaming. I will die on this hill.
posted by Diskeater at 12:14 PM on December 12, 2023