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Doom Has Been Ported Into A PDF File

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Over the years, we’ve seen the internet’s favourite past time of porting Doom over to unconventional and sometimes, inappropriate platforms. Continuing that tradition is Github user ading2210, who successfully managed to port the classic shooter into a PDF File. ading2210 describes themself as a high school student with an interest in programming, web programming, and cybersecurity. They say that the project, aptly named DoomPDF, was possible ma…

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Doom in a PDF – PDF Association

Thanks to PDF’s allowances for JavaScript and resulting support in many PDF viewers, the (patently ridiculous, right?!?) idea of playing Doom – the legendary (if low-res) video game – in a PDF file, just EXPLODED recently. A very few examples… They’ve only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file (The Register) Nice PDF, But Can It Run DOOM? Yup! (Hackaday) This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom (Ars Technica) Google it for yourself Why? Why not!

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