Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom

owl writes:

https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/

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.

If you're curious about how this works, I released the source code to build the map here:

https://github.com/nukep/doom-calculator

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