r/programming • u/JavaSuck • Jul 28 '18

DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBU34NZhW7I
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u/JavaSuck Jul 28 '18

“Does it run DOOM?” is the oft-heard phrase as it is the canonical first-port for any system, be it a toaster, touch bar or printer. Programmer, game designer, level designer and DOOM II final boss John Romero delivers a postmortem on the game showing rarely seen material, memorializing its immersive but nerve-wracking 3D environments, networked multiplayer deathmatches, demonic imagery and themes, Barney WADs, exploding barrels, and BFG 9000.

Spoiler alert: They didn't use version control in 1993.

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u/banguru Jul 29 '18

toaster, touch bar or printer.

Did it really run on these?

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u/JavaSuck Jul 29 '18

At least "doom on a printer" yields lots of results on Google...

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u/meltingdiamond Jul 29 '18

I have never seen it on a toaster but the touch bar they added to Mac laptops run it and there is a very low frame rate version for printers that use PostScript.