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.
"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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
