DOOM ported to the BBC Micro vintage computer

According to Adafruit Blog, developers have successfully ported DOOM to the BBC Micro—a vintage computer with a two-megahertz processor and thirty-two kilobytes of RAM. The port runs DOOM's first level in full three dimensions, complete with the depth calculations needed to render walls and objects correctly, and a fully walkable environment where doors and lifts actually work. It's a stunning achievement in optimization for such constrained hardware.

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