News Doom Runs at 60 FPS in Notepad

[Admin]

Game developer Sam Chiet gets Doom to run in Microsoft Notepad on Windows.

Doom Runs at 60 FPS in Notepad : Read more

 

[derekullo]

Doom is nice, but ... can it run Crysis?

 

[DougalDylan]

Game developer Sam Chiet gets Doom to run in Microsoft Notepad on Windows.

Doom Runs at 60 FPS in Notepad : Read more

I thought Notepad was limited to 64K hence MSoft kept trying to get rid of it.

 

[coromonadalix]

WOW lolll

 

[digitalgriffin]

Create keyboard hook
Form ASCII screen
Send keys Ctrl a, delete
Copy text stream to clipboard
Send keys Ctrl v

 

[Chung Leong]

Create keyboard hook
Form ASCII screen
Send keys Ctrl a, delete
Copy text stream to clipboard
Send keys Ctrl v

Nothing that complicated. The text can be set by sending the WM_SETTEXT message to the text control.

 

[digitalgriffin]

Nothing that complicated. The text can be set by sending the WM_SETTEXT message to the text control.

Okay you win. You created the better mouse trap. . Or is that Doom trap?

 

[Justin Goldberg]

Okay you win. You created the better mouse trap. . Or is that Doom trap?

How was this done?!??!?!

 

[digitalgriffin]

How was this done?!??!?!

There are algorithms out there that will render ASCII based on images. Been around a long time. Since the 80s in fact.

It's just a matter of capturing the active screen and feeding the inputs into the render. A 640x480 input will do