Doom now "runs" in Microsoft Paint thanks to a wildly inventive clipboard trick
Called DoomPaint, Russinovich's creation doesn't literally execute Doom inside Microsoft's drawing app. Instead, ViZDoom, a ZDoom-based platform designed primarily for AI research, runs the engine and renders it headlessly. It loads the genuine shareware DOOM1.WAD for the first episode, while maps not included with that release use the BSD-licensed Freedoom... Read Entire Article
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- Microsoft Paint used as a 'monitor' to run Doom at up to 35 fps, project released by firm's Azure CTO — runs actual Doom engine and loads real shareware DOOM1.WAD tomshardware.com
- Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time tech.slashdot.org
- Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time theregister.com
