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Easily portable doom

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2019-09-07 · latest 2026-07-21

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  1. …CPU that you can target with your favourite programming language. Make it run DOOM (start with https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric and see which I/O do you need), or turn it into a toy game console; the sky's the limit. --- Here's a…
    comment by sph · 2026-07-21 · in Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral
  2. Doomgeneric has a very thin platform-specific layer: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric?tab=readme-ov-file#porti...
    comment by rzzzt · 2025-06-19 · in Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly
  3. https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric all you have to do, according to the readme, is implement five functions in the linked project to get doom on your chosen platform.
    comment by fragmede · 2025-02-11 · in DOOM on Google Sheets
  4. …work of making Doom more portable was done by the incredible project doom-generic which I forked: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
    comment by 0x0mer · 2024-04-21 · in Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
  5. Interface https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric/blob/master/doomgeneric/... 150-line example impl https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric/blob/master/doomgeneric/... As other commenters said, the code is good enough to read for that task. The…
    comment by ReactiveJelly · 2023-01-24 · in Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier
  6. Strange, they left in platform-specific code: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric/blob/bec8ced5887df55b818... Why not strip that out? And it leads me to wondering what sort of gotchas are throughout, and what basic system assumptions are…
    comment by dleslie · 2023-01-24 · in Doomgeneric: Make porting Doom easier
  7. …Andreas used a Doom flavor that required very few platform-specific changes to make it run: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
    comment by rzzzt · 2022-06-08 · in Porting Doom to a/UX
  8. …are 32-bit but use 64-bits [1] http://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-return-of-t... [2] https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
    comment by tedd4u · 2020-12-22 · in Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1
  9. …OS being built in Qt Creator :) Your generic DOOM looks really easy-to-port, gonna try it ASAP: https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric
    comment by akling · 2019-09-07 · in Show HN: A simple Unix-like operating system that runs Doom