Doom8088 IBM MDA 80x25 2 color text mode full playthrough

[@jonathanharding5103]

It becomes so much more visually cohesive when I take my glasses off.

[@diamondp.9688]

!!!!! First I thought it was a joke... until I tried it and suddenly it became seeming kinda playable.

[@arthurengeletrica]

It is true, i have 7,5 degrees of myopia, and it is true

[@arthurengeletrica]

The characters bend with nearby characters, interesting

[@0DRONZER]

omg it does lol

[@thecybercafeman]

I have heard that even people who wear glasses do not require antialising. not having glasses is their antialising.

[@vexorian]

Some losers out there spending millions to make AI generate doom when it will never look as good as this.

[@RoastCDuck]

AI: I don't have opinions, biases, morals or feelings. HOWEVER. Everything I don't like is illegal and wrong. Doom is violent! and I don't like it! We must praise common sense, they are a set of universal rules that apply everywhere in the universe NO MATTER WHAT. Sure AI... Sure... (Edited because I forget that stupid AI disclaimer all the time)

[@ninjacat230]

This probably would've been really cool in the 80s

[@xrror]

"You know guys, it's almost like MDA isn't well suited for DooM..." "NONSENSE!"

[@hrrawr]

brings new meaning to the phrase "only beatable if you keep moving".

[@windowpeeper]

chainsaw sound is my new alarm

[@sophiacristina]

I like when the moving gray blob is blobbed by a blob that makes funny sound... ... Jokes aside, i love "Doom on everything". Nice one! :)

[@karkhrkrkk]

Squinting your eyes makes it actually look much more comprehensible

[@jbmaru]

And those good old speaker sound effects!

[@RoastCDuck]

10 million light years, the last ship of humanity contains a single copy of Doom. They will wake up once it goes through all 4 chapters of Doom 1 to then colonize the unknown.

[@unrealengine1enhanced]

i could tell when he finished a lvl, it really is playable in some parts.

[@Archivosdelosvideojuegos]

for some reason this is nightmare fuel for me.

[@alxxz]

Oh, how so?!

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

I'd love a version of this in a more pure ascii mode. I mean, it is, but like with monsters and your guns also being ascii art and not filtered through whatever ascii you're using here. There's minimod where everything is as minimalist as possible.

[@tsm688]

these are all IBM PC character set characters.

[@Saver310]

The game looks playable, only complaint is the intermission screen

[@MattIsTheCat]

This reminds me of Jim Leonard.

[@Zylenxx]

those are some crunchy end screens, ngl

[@appidydafoo]

Wild

[@8-bitcentral31]

Awsome!

[@lydialoud]

I'd love to see this on an IBM 5155 or an original Compaq Portable

[@kilianhekhuis]

OMG this is horrendous! 😂

[@DookNookim]

Any plans for using this mode in Rick Dangerous 2? 😜

[@kilianhekhuis]

@DookNookim That would be something, don't tempt me 😂

[@Nbrother1607]

Woah

[@unrealengine1enhanced]

ya if i squint i can see everything properly. decent.

[@Saver310]

It's amazing how you can get even worse graphics than the SNES version Also PC speaker FTW!

[@elmariachi5133]

I guess you coudl as well play it without any display ..

[@mefipulate]

Does this work with brutal doom?

[@Saver310]

It's DOSbox so no

[@user-gn2qx6ie2m]

144p Recommend

[@Noedell]

Squint Doom!

[@олегстенин-о6я]

was the “loading screen” drawn in Notepad?😂

[@DookNookim]

Actually, it was created with CGAArt, but that tool doesn't really support this video mode.

[@JimLeonard]

This is one of the less successful visual targets. Can you render to grayscale and then maybe translate to a wider character set than just #176/#177/#178?

[@nneeerrrd]

Yep. I would also make rendering sprites using dynamic character redefining of ASCII symbols 128-255.

[@JimLeonard]

@nneeerrrd Redefining the character set would only work on EGA and VGA, and the existing 16- and 256-color targets for EGA/VGA already work much better, so I would discourage that. Also, redefining the character set is not as fast on real hardware as it is in dosbox; it would, again, be slower than just supporting a 16-color mode.

[@DookNookim]

I could try using all the characters instead of just #0/#176/#177/#178/#219.

[@nneeerrrd]

​​@@JimLeonardwell, character font redefining worked for me pretty good on an 8088 with CGA clone. Not on MDA, though

[@JimLeonard]

@@nneeerrrd CGA doesn't support redefinable fonts. EGA, VGA, and the Hercules InColor card do, but not CGA and MDA. So I'm not sure what you're referring to...

[@thedddemon]

Port it on the C128!

[@AG-JustYourAverageGuy]

Can it bad apple?

[@RoastCDuck]

Oh please, weebs want it to show the tofu girls eating the apple, it was never about the technical side.

[@alxxz]

@@RoastCDuck Yeah but those tofu girls were cool at least! :D