A PDF File Is Latest Unlikely Thing Doom Has Been Ported To

You Can Now Play Doom Inside a PDF Reader
You can play it on its official website which, of course, is just a PDF file that can be downloaded on your system
A PDF File Is The Latest Unlikely Thing Doom Has Been Ported To
As spotted by IGN, Github user and self described “high school student” Ading2210 has created a small website that lets you play a PDF version of Doom. Click here to play Doom in a PDF. (Note that it only works in Chromium browsers.)
Galaxy-brained high schooler ports Doom to a PDF file, paving the way for a bloody revolution in invoicing
Now, an enterprising high schooler has further extended Doom's platform omnipresence, successfully porting the FPS to a PDF pile. This latest bizarre port of Doom, creatively named DoomPDF, is the work of github user ading2210, who describes themselves as a "high school student with an interest in programming, web development, and cybersecurity".
This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom
In the past, hackers have used this little-known Adobe feature to code simple games like Breakout and Tetris into PDF documents. But ading220 went further, recompiling a streamlined fork of Doom 's open source code using an old version of Emscripten that outputs optimized asm.js code.
Rip and tear through Doom in a PDF
Doom PDF only works in Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc.) and supports custom WADs (modded Doom files like the recent Gallery Experience ), though you’ll need the original Doom WAD to get them working.
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They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing. Considering the more-than-30-year-old shooter, Doom, has been ported to many unexpected places, it was inevitable it would turn up in a PDF file.
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You can now play Doom inside a PDF
The feat has been shown off by creator ading.dev on Bluesky, where they reveal that it works because PDFs support Javascript, thus allowing them to use Emscripten to turn Doom into a asm.js file and thus run the game within the PDF engine.
A high school student just made Doom playable in a PDF file
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