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Comment by dimillian | Hacker News Reader

Can it run Doom?

Edit: Ok I'm impressed, apparently it can even run Doom III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rluGgjcXtEY

Doom most probably use a very superficial part of windows. Mainly, whatever is needed to put a framebuffer on screen. So although this is definitely a good news, it's not that impressive. Does it run MS Word or Visual Basic ?

Assuming you mean VB6, apparently yes but with some glitches:

   http://s14.postimg.org/7xggyma75/VB6_React_OS.png

(not my image and it is 3 years old so it might work better now)

Note that VB6 was released in 1998 and thus was expected to work on Windows 95/98 and NT4 (and Windows 2000 when it came out). It is kind of sad to see that ReactOS is not there yet...

My guess is that most of API is generally there, but the issues i mentioned elsewhere in this post with the region stuff cause the glitches. This looks like a simple thing to fix (i've implemented regions at the past in an experimental winsys i was writing on Linux [0] so i have a general idea of how they work) for someone with knowledge about ReactOS' graphics stack, so i suppose there are reasons it hasn't been fixed yet (maybe it relies on driver support and they plan to change the driver model? Just an assumption).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/v6NaqNW.png

> apparently it can even run Doom III

Can run? That was unplayable choppy. Guess it could be the machine though.

It's in a VM according to the comments on YouTube.

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