Can MS Paint Run Doom? (Yes)
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Doom has long been known to be able to run on the most unlikely devices. Now, the classic FPS has turned Microsoft Paint into a kind of monitor for the game, resorting to an ingenious trick with...
Azure CTO Pastes Doom Into Paint One Frame At a Time
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard. The project is referred to as "DoomPaint" or "MS Paint Doom" on GitHub. The Register reports: To be clear, Microsoft Paint isn't doing anything other than serving as a place to paste from the game. [...] ViZDoom runs the Doom .wad file and rend…
Doom Just Found Its Weirdest New Home: Microsoft Paint
DoomPaint is the latest in the series of unusual Doom ports, from Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure. Russinovich whipped DoomPaint up in his spare time with the help of Claude Opus 4.8, based on information in his LinkedIn posts and the code itself. DoomPaint is about what you'd expect from a wild port like this, because apps
Doom is now running in Microsoft Paint: An ambitious project uses the Windows drawing program as a renderer for the cult shooter – including sound and control.
There are technological milestones that mark a time. Then there is this. A Microsoft engineer has achieved what seemed impossible: running Doom inside Paint. And no, it is not a mod or a pirate version: it is the original Doom, frame by frame, copying and pasting from the clipboard. They have baptized it as DoomPaint and it is undoubtedly the most serious nonsense that has given birth to modern cacharreo. Mark Russinovich, director of Azure tech…
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