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brundolf
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But can it run Doom?
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FartyMcFarter
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Yes. I don't expect anyone can simulate that at real-time speed though (unless they take a lot of shortcuts, e.g. simulating at a higher level, which becomes a bit pointless).
dllthomas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
speeds things up a lot, although my uninformed guess is still not enough.
ctlachance
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I suppose any Turing complete language could. You could run DOOM in PowerPoint if you were masochistic enough.
hedora
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There’s a Doom clone for excel:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyOJsJlLhI
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