Doom Runs At 60 FPS In Notepad

Recreation developer Sam Chiet has discovered one other use for Microsoft Notepad. The ingenious creator has gotten Doom (1993) to run at 60 FPS via the boring textual content editor in Home windows. Tom’s {Hardware} experiences: Chiet highlighted that he did not have to switch the Notepad utility. Dubbed “NotepadDOOM,” the undertaking is absolutely playable. Though Chiet did not clarify how the mod works, has dedicated to launching NotepadDOOM for different Doom followers to check out. Chiet stated in a subsequent tweet that “it’s going to take some work to shine NotepadDOOM into one thing releasable, however it’ll nearly definitely occur over the subsequent couple days.” John Romero, one in every of Doom’s creators, was impressed and replied to Chiet in a tweet that the mod was “unimaginable.”

You’ll be able to see the long-lasting 1993 shooter operating in its full glory on Chiet’s YouTube channel. It is Notepad, so clearly, Chiet changed the graphics with characters and numbers. The gameplay seems fairly clean, though we did catch some display screen tearing. Nonetheless, that could possibly be as a result of Notepad cannot write the textual content quick sufficient on display screen.