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Why do people keep porting DOOM to different obsolete platforms or recreating it in Javascript? Is there some internal "cool" factor for doing this in super nic
by brianbreslin 4y ago
Why do people keep porting DOOM to different obsolete platforms or recreating it in Javascript? Is there some internal "cool" factor for doing this in super niche geeky dev communities?
- hd4 4y agoTry actually reading, it's the original port.
- brianbreslin 4y agoWhen one sees the last commit as 29 days ago, or the previous commit as 8 years ago, one can easily assume it wasn't code from 1995. So again. Why is this even interesting?
- IntelMiner 4y agoRead the readme instead of arguing on HN about it
- tappdarden 4y agogithub (and git) wasn't around in 1995 One should read the readme's. let people enjoy things.
- helf 4y agoSeriously. Different strikes for different folks. I love stuff like this. It’s computer history. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as well as being a snapshot of culture.
- b1ue64 4y ago> The complete archive for DOOM for the 3DO It's funny how you bother to look at the commit dates, but not the README and repository description
- helf 4y agoMan you must be a hoot at parties.
- bstar77 4y agoThe responses you are seeing is what happens when you lack self awareness and humility.
- tappdarden 4y agoThis was made over 20 years ago. The 3do never had much success but it wasn't obsolete yet.
- gattilorenz 4y agoThe answer to both is… yes. I could have tried to port, say, Actua Soccer to SCO Xenix, but I went with DOOM because the source is available, every detail is known, there’s a million different ports to learn from, there’s a reasonably clear separation of OS dependent and independent parts, everyone loves DOOM, it runs on any hardware, porting DOOM to platform X is almost a meme, … should I continue?
- anyfoo 4y agoNiche? Porting DOOM is pretty much the canonical mainstream thing to do to new or newly discovered old platforms. That being said, this is about the original, and official, commercial DOOM port decades ago.
- bluedino 4y agoIt's open source, easy to port, and people that played PC games in the 90's have fond memories of it.