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Playing Doom On OS/2 Warp

Or… The convoluted method of installing and running Doom on a virtualised OS/2 installation

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Doom

Doom was released in 1993 — and is considered a classic game.

“Doom is considered one of the first pioneering first-person shooter games, introducing features such as 3D graphics, third-dimension spatiality, networked multiplayer gameplay, and support for player-created modifications.”

Will It Run Doom?

It is a technology internet joke — which is about running Doom on as many pieces of hardware as possible.

• The jail-broken computer system for John Deere tractors
• A pregnancy test (although this was a mini computer that was put into the plastic housing of the pregnancy test)
• An Apple Watch
• A TI-84 graphing calculator
• A portable plate edge bevelling machine — an oddly specific machine
• A Macbook touch bar
• The touchscreen on a printer