The original 1993 Doom is not only a landmark title, helping to shape the modern FPS for decades to come, but it's become something of a meme over the years. One of the ways people are helping to perpetuate the influential game's longevity is by trying to install and play it on numerous devices not initially built to run it. Doom has been ported to a number of weird pieces of hardware, and the fan base is usually on the lookout for more machines that can be compatible with it. Lately, someone managed to get it to load on a machine that is even older than the game itself.
Posting a video to Twitter recently, user monel1976 has managed to load Doom onto an Amiga 1200 computer, a machine that came out in October 1992. The clip shows the captured footage, in which the game can be seen running at a decent frame rate. The video was uploaded after someone posted an image of an Amiga 500 monitor with Doom running on it. Unfortunately, this image was revealed to have been photoshopped, but it did spark a debate about other types of devices that could play the game, including other Amiga computers from the 80s and 90s.
While Doom was officially ported to numerous devices, including there being a version for Amiga OS, ex-id Software co-founder John Carmack has spoken about how the Amiga is simply not powerful enough to run the game, according to another Twitter user. This perhaps suggests that there has been some modification done to the 1200 in order for it to play at just under 30fps on average. Either way, it once again gets people talking about all the ways that this influential title can be played on a wide variety of things, especially those that aren't designed for gaming.
Perhaps one of the most bizarre ways someone has ported the game is when, earlier this year, one person got Doom to run using logic gates comprised of 16 billion solider crabs. There is seemingly a dedicated community that strives to find new and interesting ways to play id Software's most notable IP.
The fan base is also keen to mod both Doom and Doom 2 turning them into completely different games. The legacy of this mid-90s shooter cannot be overstated. The fact that people are still willing to either tinker with the game, or tinker with devices and hardware to get it to run the game, shows just how much of an impact the original Doom, and its sequel, has had on the community.