You can now play ‘Doom’ inside ‘Doom II’
is playable on just about anything, from a and to an and . YouTuber kgsws took the Inception route, though. They put a playable version of Doom inside Doom II.
They used an exploit in the DOS version of Doom II, as Gizmodo notes. The modder, who explains the process in a 15-minute YouTube video, was able to get a modern port of Doom (Chocolate Doom, which uses the original source code) running inside Doom II as an animated texture. The original game is projected on a virtual display in a custom Doom II map that kgsws created.
They built more maps that showcase the pioneering first-person shooter, including having the same instance of Doom running on four walls surrounding the player and a cinema screen that’s projecting the game. Additionally, kgsws showed off Heretic running inside of Doom.
You can try the hack for yourself, as kgsws . You can snap up a DOS version of Doom II from Steam. You might need a reasonably beefy gaming PC to run Doom inside Doom II, though. “Both games are running independently of each other,” kgsws explains. “That means you need double the memory. I would recommend you to get at least 16MB of RAM.”
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is playable on just about anything, from a and to an and . YouTuber kgsws took the Inception route, though. They put a playable version of Doom inside Doom II.
They used an exploit in the DOS version of Doom II, as Gizmodo notes. The modder, who explains the process in a 15-minute YouTube video, was able to get a modern port of Doom (Chocolate Doom, which uses the original source code) running inside Doom II as an animated texture. The original game is projected on a virtual display in a custom Doom II map that kgsws created.
They built more maps that showcase the pioneering first-person shooter, including having the same instance of Doom running on four walls surrounding the player and a cinema screen that’s projecting the game. Additionally, kgsws showed off Heretic running inside of Doom.
You can try the hack for yourself, as kgsws . You can snap up a DOS version of Doom II from Steam. You might need a reasonably beefy gaming PC to run Doom inside Doom II, though. “Both games are running independently of each other,” kgsws explains. “That means you need double the memory. I would recommend you to get at least 16MB of RAM.”
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