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owl [soylentnews.org] writes:

For decades, we've asked ourselves "Can it run Doom?". Now we can finally make the ultimate punchline: "Can Doom run it?"

I demonstrate that it is possible to run any bounded computation in Doom, minus constraints on level size. I have not proven that Doom is Turing complete (see the section later in this article).

This works with the vanilla MS-DOS release of Doom 2 (v1.9). No mods or anything!

I love projects like these. I was inspired by the esoteric machines in other games such as Minecraft and RollerCoaster Tycoon.

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