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The question 'Can it run Doom?' is a legendary gaming meme, with the game appearing on everything from pregnancy tests to microwaves. But what about a PC nine years older than the game itself? Witness the incredible port of Doom to a 1982 Commodore 64.
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00:00The answer to can it run Doom is almost always yes, mad geniuses have got the fps running
00:06on vapes, printers, microwaves and pregnancy tests but what about a PC that's 9 years
00:14older than Doom itself?
00:16The tiny 8 bit powerhouse that was the Commodore 64, an engineer named Steve McCree aimed to
00:22find out building a less than straight forward Commodore Doom port and of course it worked.
00:28By some miracle, McCree got a game that's told to tip Doom running on hardware from the
00:33year ET came out.
00:35It's a mess of pixels of course and not even really 3D but dammit I know Doom when I see
00:41it.
00:41There's only one thing for it, time to port Doom to the Apple one.
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