Why do people keep porting DOOM to different obsolete platforms or recreating it in Javascript? Is there some internal "cool" factor for doing this in super niche geeky dev communities?
I could have tried to port, say, Actua Soccer to SCO Xenix, but I went with DOOM because the source is available, every detail is known, there’s a million different ports to learn from, there’s a reasonably clear separation of OS dependent and independent parts, everyone loves DOOM, it runs on any hardware, porting DOOM to platform X is almost a meme, … should I continue?
That being said, this is about the original, and official, commercial DOOM port decades ago.
It's funny how you bother to look at the commit dates, but not the README and repository description
One should read the readme's.
let people enjoy things.
Different strikes for different folks.
I love stuff like this. It’s computer history. It’s interesting from a technical perspective as well as being a snapshot of culture.