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<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nPorting Doom to various devices has become an art over the years. From calculators to printers, the first level of \u201cKnee Deep in the Dead\u201d tends to show up in a lot of places. This is the first time, at least that I\u2019m aware of, that a modder has figured out how to actually play Doom inside of Minecraft itself.<\/p>\n
The mod works via VirtualBox (as-in, the software) and an associated Minecraft mod. Essentially, the mod allows you to order a computer from a satellite that passes overhead 5x per day. Once you\u2019ve ordered it, you can configure the box for the type of machine you want to virtually emulate, then install an emulated operating system. You can probably guess where this is going:<\/p>\n
\nI played DOOM in Minecraft with VMComputers mod. from Minecraft <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
While running Doom in Minecraft via VirtualBox is new, it turns out that running Doom inside of other applications isn\u2019t as novel as I thought it was. It\u2019s actually possible to run Doom inside of GZDoom already, thanks to a tool called Action Code Script, which raises a question of its own: Is it possible to run GZDoom in Minecraft, and then to run Doom inside of GZDoom?<\/p>\n
Because if you did, you\u2019d be running Doom inside of Doom, inside of a virtual machine, inside of Minecraft, which itself is just one application running on a PC. When I was a kid, one of the things we did for fun was call people who had threeway calling, then get them<\/em> to call someone, and so on. We once built up a long enough chain of people (reports varied on how many) that we were all simultaneously disconnected and the phone system fired off an \u201call circuits are busy\u201d when we tried to call each other back.<\/p>\n
Running Doom inside of Doom inside of Minecraft reminds me of something similar. It\u2019s also an amusing way to waste modern CPU performance by finding the point at which a computer can no longer effectively play Doom because the weight of every other simulation\/game running behind<\/em> Doom has left the machine inoperable.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re in the middle of a pandemic. Take your fun where you can find it.<\/p>\n
PCGamer has a pretty great list of other \u201ccomputers\u201d you can play Doom on. Doom has also been ported to the Commodore 64, an ATM, and (my personal favorite), a piano.\u00a0The ultimate trick would be if playing the music from \u201cKnee Deep in the Dead\u201d on the piano also successfully maneuvered Doomguy through the level and let him exit successfully.<\/p>\n
Feature image by VMComputers, Minecraft mod<\/em><\/p>\n
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