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88 points by davidhay a year ago · 19 comments

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moritonal a year ago

Shouldn't this be "Render Doom on Google Sheets", given the processing is done in GScript? I'm sure there is a way to actually run frame-by-frame Doom with only cell equations.

  • rzzzt a year ago

    "Run any DOS game via JS-DOS, a JS wrapper of DOSBox, render to small offscreen canvas, present frame in Google Sheets" is more correct but it makes a less catchy title.

  • ge96 a year ago

    I'm seen a roller coaster run in a spreadsheet

  • cjoshi66 a year ago

    true. can any current gen AI be given a prompt "create game [X] in spreadsheet" and it just works?

    • TechDebtDevin a year ago

      Hell no

      • cjoshi66 a year ago

        thank you for that very insightful comment.

        • RIMR a year ago

          You asked a yes or no question. Not sure what you were expecting.

          • cjoshi66 a year ago

            I was hoping for someone to share some cool prompts to get close to a working arcade-style game in spreadsheet. idk.

            • RIMR a year ago

              So you asked a yes or no question, expected the answer must be yes, and wanted people to offering you examples?

              Maybe you should have asked a different question.

aradox66 a year ago

I haven't ever looked into these Doom emulators, but at this point my impression is that Doom is some kind of natural and inevitable epiphenomenon that can be provoked in any computing environment with just a little prodding.

Like a rainbow from sunlight, Doom is always already there once you set up a few nand gates.

hoten a year ago

> Google Sheets does not support true color rendering.

True color just means you're not indexing your colors with a pallete. Aka, RGB 32 bit. So surely this isn't true?

Cockbrand a year ago

Was anyone able to get it to work? I see the sidebar with "Initializing DOOM renderer...", and after a while I hear the game sounds, but my spreadsheet remains empty. I deployed it as a "Web App".

halyconWays a year ago

More impressive than the "digital thermometer runs doom!" where really they just connected the OLED display, but IMO if it's not being processed on the device then it's not running Doom.

teddyh a year ago

Yet another example of people claiming to run Doom somewhere, but is actually only displaying Doom, while Doom is running somewhere else, on another system.

  • skyyler a year ago

    It's silly because we already have something for showing off unique displays: Bad Apple!!

    I still think it's cool to display Doom in unusual places, but I do agree with you that it's technically different than *playing* Doom in unusual places.

  • jayrot a year ago

    Yeah this is absolutely worthless and should never have been done, much less shown to anyone. I want the money I spent on this back.

    /s

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