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.

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.

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

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.

Doom has been ported to devices like toasters, a fridge, and pretty much everything else you can think of, so the frontier for truly remarkable things that can run Doom is wearing thin. But one high-schooler has managed to port Doom into an actual PDF file that you can run inside your browser.

There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing. Considering the more-than-30-year-old shooter, Doom, has been ported to many unexpected places, it was inevitable it would turn up in a PDF file.

I tried Doom in a PDF on Chrome browser and it gave me a nostalgia but through a string of words on my screen. Here's how it went.

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Tireless programmers are constantly searching for platforms and devices to which "Doom" has not yet been ported. Now "Doom" has been converted to PDF.