The fate the original, released in 1993, is not only a legendary video game, but also one of the most modified and ported titles in history. The publication of the source code of the engine for Linux in 1999 under the GPLv2 license contributed in no small measure to this, which made it possible not only to transfer it to any platform, but also to run it in ATMs, the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro 2016 and even directly in the BIOS.

In short, the Doom engine has proven to have no limits when it comes to portability, so it shouldn’t be too surprising to achieve youtuber Samperson who made it run the legendary video game on Windows Notepad. Yes, as you read it.

The video Samperson posted to show Doom running from Windows Notepad shows that the game still lacks an update to be playable. On the other hand, the fact that everything on the familiar text editor is drawn with characters makes it somewhat difficult to distinguish the elements, but even so it is still something curious.

Samperson describes himself as a game developer and experimenter. In addition to running Doom on Windows Notepad, he also says he’s working on an illegal Xbox Kinect resurrection, a failed peripheral for Microsoft consoles. If Kinect is completely dead, Microsoft could have a move to hand over the peripheral to users, but the company may want to hold its own on patent issues and the like.



Samperson said he’s polishing NotepadDOOM (so he called his Notepad implementation of Doom) to be something distributable, which could happen tomorrow if we see a date tweet announcing it. His invention will not revolutionize the world playing gamesbut it’s another sign that the original Doom engine knows no bounds.