Someone Hacked an Apple Network Server to Run DOOM – $10,000 IBM AIX Unit From 1996 Runs the Game

Popular FPS 'Doom' is Now Playable on Apple Network Server

An old joke says that the classic first-person shooter game Doom has been run on everything except a potato. There is a long list of devices that enterprising developers have been able to get to run Doom. Thanks to an enterprising blogger, you can add the Apple Network Server to that list.Apple sold the Apple […]Read More...

Classic 'Doom' now playable on Apple Network Server

The classic first-person-shooter game "Doom" has been ported to an unexpected Apple product, with the three decade old Apple Network Server the latest hardware to be added to the compatibility list. Doom on an Apple Network Server - Image credit: Old VCR/Cameron Kaiser The Apple Network Server is a piece of hardware that, until May 2025, was not able to run ID Software's Doom. Thanks to an enterprising blogger, the game can be played on it.Sold …

Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom – OSnews

Of course you can run Doom on a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let’s go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander’s AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple Network Server could run no version of AIX later than 4.1.5 and there are substantial technical differences. (As it happens, the very fact it won…

Someone hacked an Apple Network Server to run DOOM – $10,000 IBM AIX unit from 1996 runs the game

Someone managed to get Doom running on a $10,000 Apple Network Server from 1996.