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PetaPixel: You Can Play Doom On a 16-Year-Old Canon DSLR. “It’s possible to run the pioneering 1993 first-person shooter video game Doom on just about anything, even cameras. By using Magic Lantern software on a Canon EOS 550D from 2010, also known as the EOS Rebel T2i and EOS Kiss X4, photographers can install a custom build of Doom on their APS-C cameras.”

TechSpot: Doom now “runs” in Microsoft Paint thanks to a wildly inventive clipboard trick. “WTF?! It’s long been established that Doom can be made to run on pretty much anything with a screen, but this ability goes beyond mere devices. The latest example of the classic FPS’s legendary portability involves Microsoft Paint essentially being used as a monitor that displays the original shareware […]

Engadget: It runs Doom: AI chatbot edition. “AI chatbots can answer random questions, create travel itineraries, write code and even ‘date’ users. But can they run Doom? Apparently, yes, yes they can.”