I get that notepad isn't modified I'm just wondering how it's being updated externally.

Is it a debugger, updating what's in the text buffer?

I believe that Doom is just running as a separate executable and then there’s some new system that’s processing the visuals as ASCII and then just overwriting what’s in Notepad every frame. I don’t think that Notepad itself is actually modified.

How does this work?

thank you

unbelievable. planned obsolescence in action. teletext ityool 2023 should be running at a buttery 144 frames per second. lazy devs

i think the doom guys teletext face is better than the original. he's just having a good time

ok i tried it with my raspberry pi 1 on a circa 2001 28" panasonic crt telly.

i made a mistake and used raspbian without X, so i couldn't actually make inputs to the game. but it wouldn't have mattered, because the update rate while it played the demo was slow as shit, about 3 fps like the person on github got on their modern tv. i forgot to actually check if the pi's cpu was maxed out or not, but i suspect it's a limitation of the teletext decoding circuitry, which is probably the exact same as used on modern tvs. unfortunately i have no other tvs to test with, so that's gonna be that.

ok fine i'll try it

Harvest Doom

real talk, thank god it didn't imo

I think the other way around - running DOS Doom inside a source port, has been done. But that was more using intended features or extending the engine, while this is using a vulnerability in the original game.

now the real question is, can you run doom inside doom inside doom, ad infinitum?

im honestly surprised that this wasnt already a thing

omg

lol it's broken

one thing I LOVE about early home microcomputers is how ingenious storing data as an analogue stream was, like I'm aware of cassette tapes, flexi disc records coming free with magazines, and radio broadcasts as ways of distributing data. I'll admit, DOS on a record is a new one.

Also what's cool is because it just cares about the audio and not where it's coming from, you can easily load programs onto your old computers with an MP3 played off a smartphone, which is so fucking cool.

rip

Sadly that's a full fork of a specific DOOM engine implementation and not just a WAD

now they need to put in that big doom mod where you're playing sonic and we'll go full circle

Download

that's more of a leisurely jog button in morrowind tho

i run in morrowind too all i do is hit the caps lock button :)

this is the mod morrowind needed all along