DOOM Ported to a PDF, Playable in Web Browsers

In a pregnancy test, in a holographic dome, in a lawnmower, and now in a PDF, Doom invites you to kill demons from within a document.

Move Over Toasters: Doom Is Now Playable Inside a PDF

Doom has been ported to devices like toasters, a fridge, and pretty much everything else you can think of, so the frontier for truly remarkable things that can run Doom is wearing thin. But one high-schooler has managed to port Doom into an actual PDF file that you can run inside your browser. Sure, it’s missing minor elements like “text” and “sound” — but who really needs that when you can play E1M1 while pretending to do those taxes you’ve bee…

Latest Doom port runs inside a PDF document, but performance is limited

We can now add PDF documents to the ever-growing list of "things" that can run Doom. A high school student interested in programming and cybersecurity developed the DoomPDF project, providing yet another example of how killing cacodemons on Mars has become a truly universal pastime, no matter the technology used.Read Entire Article

It's Doom ... running in a PDF file

Knee-deep in the markup

Random: Now You Can Play DOOM... Inside A PDF?

PDF Software - Your eyes are not deceiving you, reader — the hugely influential FPS DOOM is now fully playable inside a PDF file. Did anyone ask for this? ...

Playing DOOM in a PDF file (and source code)

Allen (ading2210 on GitHub) has created a port of the game DOOM which runs within an Adobe PDF file. You might expect PDF files to only be comprised of static documents, but surprisingly, the PDF file format supports Javascript with its own separate standard library. Modern browsers (Chromium, Firefox) implement this as part of their PDF engines. However, the APIs that are available in the browser are much more limited. C code can be compiled to…