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Shaun Prescott

Proving Doom can actually run on anything, one programmer has made a working build for Commodore 64

An image comparing Doom running on a PC versus Doom running on a Commodore 64.

You can play Doom on a vape, a printer, an oscilloscope, a pregnancy test, an ATM, and inside Doom itself, but can you play it on a Commodore 64? The old 8-bit powerhouse was discontinued just a year after Doom's 1993 release, and while it was capable of small miracles for its time, it was not a natural home for first-person shooters.

Engineer and programmer Steve McCrea has worked on several Metroid games and Resident Evil 4's VR port, but his current project is inarguably more important: he's building Doom for Commodore 64.

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