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Doom delivers five minutes of terminal violence on an IBM mainframe
Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged Can an IBM Z mainframe run Doom? Of course it can.
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A browser demo shows the classic shooter Doom rendered in ASCII on an IBM Z mainframe, requiring no login and encouraging viewers to squint. The demo demonstrates that the mainframe can run the game. It also raises the question of whether the game can be played through a text terminal without damaging eyesight.
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