DoomPaint created by Microsoft’s Azure CTO.
The classic first-person shooter, Doom, has been successfully run on Microsoft Paint, as revealed by recent reports. Titled DoomPaint, this project utilizes the original shareware version of the game, allowing it to display gameplay within the Paint application, achieving speeds of up to 35 frames per second—a respectable performance for games from the 1990s.
Interestingly, Mark Russinovich, the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure, led the development of this initiative. He mentioned on the game’s GitHub page that each frame is copied to the Windows clipboard and then pasted into Paint as part of a typical document editing process.
The GitHub repository offers additional resources and guidelines for those interested in running the game using their own version of MS Paint. Notably, this version also supports sound and music.
Doom is renowned for its highly efficient programming, and since its launch in 1993, it has been found operating on numerous devices and platforms never initially intended for it. From lawnmowers and printers to chatbots and even gut bacteria, people have found ways to run Doom in extraordinary scenarios. Although the latter example was particularly remarkable, the gameplay’s frame rate was so sluggish that completing the game would take roughly 600 years.
