DOOM on Google Sheets (opens in new tab)

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88 pointsdavidhay1y ago18 comments

18 comments

Shouldn't this be "Render Doom on Google Sheets", given the processing is done in GScript? I'm sure there is a way to actually run frame-by-frame Doom with only cell equations.

rzzzt1y ago

"Run any DOS game via JS-DOS, a JS wrapper of DOSBox, render to small offscreen canvas, present frame in Google Sheets" is more correct but it makes a less catchy title.

ge961y ago

I'm seen a roller coaster run in a spreadsheet

cjoshi661y ago

true. can any current gen AI be given a prompt "create game [X] in spreadsheet" and it just works?

TechDebtDevin1y ago

Hell no

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aradox661y ago

I haven't ever looked into these Doom emulators, but at this point my impression is that Doom is some kind of natural and inevitable epiphenomenon that can be provoked in any computing environment with just a little prodding.

Like a rainbow from sunlight, Doom is always already there once you set up a few nand gates.

fragmede1y ago

https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric

all you have to do, according to the readme, is implement five functions in the linked project to get doom on your chosen platform.

hoten1y ago

> Google Sheets does not support true color rendering.

True color just means you're not indexing your colors with a pallete. Aka, RGB 32 bit. So surely this isn't true?

Cockbrand1y ago

Was anyone able to get it to work? I see the sidebar with "Initializing DOOM renderer...", and after a while I hear the game sounds, but my spreadsheet remains empty. I deployed it as a "Web App".

halyconWays1y ago

More impressive than the "digital thermometer runs doom!" where really they just connected the OLED display, but IMO if it's not being processed on the device then it's not running Doom.

nosrepa1y ago

Not that it matters too much, but it was a pregnancy test.

teddyh1y ago

Yet another example of people claiming to run Doom somewhere, but is actually only displaying Doom, while Doom is running somewhere else, on another system.

skyyler1y ago

It's silly because we already have something for showing off unique displays: Bad Apple!!

I still think it's cool to display Doom in unusual places, but I do agree with you that it's technically different than *playing* Doom in unusual places.

jayrot1y ago

Yeah this is absolutely worthless and should never have been done, much less shown to anyone. I want the money I spent on this back.

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