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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Stephen Warwick

Someone hacked an Apple Network Server to run DOOM – $10,000 IBM AIX unit from 1996 runs the game

Apple Network Server running doom.

Mankind's most noble quest, to get Doom running on every piece of hardware imaginable, continues apace, and now one enthusiast vintage blogger has documented the process of getting the game to run on Apple's $10,000 Network Server from 1996. Old VCR's Cameron Kaiser confirmed they didn't cheat either, with no Linux, NetBSD, or NCommander AIX Doom backport in sight.

Kaiser says the fact that NCommander's AIX Doom, which requires AIX (Advanced Interactive Executive) 4.3, won't run on the Apple Network Server, is what prompted the mission to get Doom up and running on the ANS by some other means in the first place.

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