Doom ported to Microsoft Word document

[kjhughes]

https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-docm

[asvirts]

“Hey, looks like you’re killing demons. Need help?” - Clippy

[shmeeed]

The most astonishing thing to me is that after all these years people still keep finding new targets to port to.

[ginko → shmeeed]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17

[sodimel]

The word document is not "running" Doom (the actual work is done by a dll that is included in the word document). The word document is instead used as a screen (never thought I'd wrote that) to display each frame.

[rkagerer → sodimel]

It's a shame, I figured something clever had been done in VBA.

[nom → sodimel]

The question is, what else can you call from the dll. Doom is self-contained, so the VBA just passes the inputs to it and gets a new image back. The dll also has to match the architecture, right? So not portable.

[furyg3]

At this point it's maybe more interesting to build a significantly complex device that DOOM can't be run on.

[doubleorseven]

gonna need a better demo video to convince me to run this thing.

All and all looks like the guy is an expert on porting doom so good for him

[byyoung3]

hackernews is peak nerdiness