Doom (1993) in a PDF

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I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file.I was inspired by the recent HN post about Tetris in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218) and I wondered if I could get Doom to run using a similar method.It turns out that old versions of Emscripten can compile C to asm.js code that will happily run inside the limited JS runtime of the PDF engine. I used the doomgeneric (https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric) fork of the original Doom source, as that made writing the IO fairly easy. All I had to do was implement a framebuffer and keyboard inputs.Unlike previous interactive PDF demos, the output for DoomPDF is achieved by creating a text field for each row of pixels in the

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