There are Doom ports for everything from Game & Watch to Minecraft to a digital camera, so being able to run a classic FPS game on a regular PC isn’t all that impressive, but it is if you barely have it turned on. on. The latest port of Doom allows you to run it directly from your PC’s firmware, making Doom bigger than Windows.
Doom is one of the most famous classic PC games and is still playable today, but for some reason everyone is obsessed with bringing it to as many platforms as possible, from a small PC to the SEGA Genesis to a restaurant. And now it can be played as part of the system BIOS.
Coreboot is an open source system BIOS and the 4.17 update is available today (via Toms Hardware). Support for many new motherboards, a new bootloader, and yes, Doom. Users can create “payloads” to add ROM code to Coreboot, including some basic games that load into a linear framebuffer, and now someone has created Doom for that.
If you do try it, expect it to be heavy and only playable via a PS/2 keyboard, with no sound, no saves, and only basic graphics. However, Doom is still running in the system BIOS, so we can cross it off the “things Doom won’t play on yet” list.
Other unexpected things to play Doom include: a pregnancy test, Twitter, a GoPro drone controller, and lots of crabs. It’s only a matter of time before you can play Doom on PCGamesN. Oh wait.
Source : PC Gamesn
