[HN Gopher] DOOM on Google Sheets
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       DOOM on Google Sheets
        
       Author : davidhay
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2025-02-07 22:47 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | moritonal wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | ge96 wrote:
         | I'm seen a roller coaster run in a spreadsheet
        
         | cjoshi66 wrote:
         | true. can any current gen AI be given a prompt "create game [X]
         | in spreadsheet" and it just works?
        
           | TechDebtDevin wrote:
           | Hell no
        
             | cjoshi66 wrote:
             | thank you for that very insightful comment.
        
               | RIMR wrote:
               | You asked a yes or no question. Not sure what you were
               | expecting.
        
               | cjoshi66 wrote:
               | I was hoping for someone to share some cool prompts to
               | get close to a working arcade-style game in spreadsheet.
               | idk.
        
         | rzzzt wrote:
         | "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.
        
       | teddyh wrote:
       | _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.
        
         | jayrot wrote:
         | 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
        
         | skyyler wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | hoten wrote:
       | > 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?
        
       | aradox66 wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | halyconWays wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Cockbrand wrote:
       | 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".
        
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