Here's 'Doom' running on Windows Notepad somehow

Windows Notepad was not designed to run video games. The natural order is being twisted by humankind's debt that must be paid one day.

Sam Chiet posted a video of doom running on notepad at 60 frames per second in fuzzy black and white art. According to Chiet, the footage has not been sped up.

This is exactly what it looks like.

I created the perfect way to play.

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Chiet uses his coding powers for silly software. The self-proclaimed "idea goblin/experiment- creator" previously released Desktop goose, a desktop menace whose sole purpose is to wreck your life and look adorable while doing it.

Chiet is currently working on making NotepadDoom suitable to be unleashed upon the wider public, which is good news for anyone who wants to play an early '90s first-person shooter entirely in ASCII art.

It will take some work to make NotepadDOOM releasable, but it will almost certainly happen over the next few days.

id Software's first-person shooter, "Doom", was released in 1993 and was developed for the old operating system, "MS-DOS". Since its release almost 30 years ago, computers, games, and graphics have evolved so much that this classic game doesn't take much to run by today's standards.

Getting to run on unconventional platforms has become an ongoing meme, with tech- savvy chaos gremlins getting it to work on everything from a MacBook Pro Touch Bar to a John Deere tractor. They've made a movie that can be played on a virtual computer in the game.

There is a long list of things that run Doom. It's not clear if anyone's eyes can finish the game in time.