Doom Is Now Playable Inside a PDF

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.)
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.
You Can Now Play Doom Inside a PDF Reader
Github user ading2210 /vk6 has developed an unusual port of Doom. You can play it on its official website which, of course, is just a PDF file that can be downloaded on your system. It continues a long tradition of creative Doom ports, further enriching its historic legacy
Even a PDF File Can Run Doom
A high school student found a way to run the classic PC game Doom from within a PDF file by leveraging the format's support for JavaScript and the Chromium browser engine.
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.
A high school student just made Doom playable in a PDF file
There’s a growing trend of developers flexing their muscles to make PDF documents do completely different things than what they’re intended to do. The goal is to push the boundaries of the PDF format.
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