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Andy Edser

Doom will run on a literal potato but apparently quantum computers still aren't powerful enough to run even this wireframe version natively

A screenshot showing Quandoom, an adaptation of Doom designed to run on a quantum computer.

Who would have thought that, all the way back in 1993 when it was first released, Doom would gain a second life as something of a hardware community project. Enterprising coders have repeatedly forced Doom to run on the most unlikely of hardware configurations, including 100 pounds of moldy potatoes (I kid you not), entirely within a motherboard BIOS,  on a WiFi-equipped toothbrush, and even just completely generated by AI.

As for quantum computers, however? Well, while GitHub user Lumorti has created Quandoom, a recreation of the first level of the iconic shooter designed to run on the esoteric and highly experimental hardware, even they admit that a quantum computer does not yet exist that's powerful enough to run it. It is "effectively simulatable" on a laptop though, thanks to the QASM simulator.

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