Why Does Everything Run Doom?

Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man
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Everything Plays Doom

• Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki (doomwiki.org/wiki/Xaser) and Github (github.com/XaserAcheron)

• Bijan Stephen’s Website (bijanstephen.blog) and Bsky (bsky.app/profile/bijan.bsky.social)

• John Matter’s Website (jojjjajjr.net/experiments) and Bsky (bsky.app/profile/jojjjajjr.bsky.social)

• Matthew Gantt on Instagram (instagram.com/gan.tttt) and Diagnostics (orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/diagnostics), his record on OMR

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Doom Guy: Life in First Person (romero.com/shop/p/doomguy), by John Romero

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Master of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom), by David Kushner

• Next Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997 (archive.org/details/NextGeneration30Jun1997/pa…)

• Compute! Magazine Issue 163 (archive.org/details/1994-04-compute-magazine/p…)

• Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116 (archive.org/stream/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue…)

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Doom Editing Utilities (doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Editing_Utilities), Doomwiki

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Other uses for DOOM engine (usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.games.doom&…), Usenetarchives

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Zfootball (jnechaevsky.github.io/projects/zfootball/index…), Doomhockey (dietinghippo.itch.io/doom-hockey), Hellshots (forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=61021), Gallery Experience (bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-gallery-experience), MyHouse.wad (doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad)

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bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene.

Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins

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