DOOM is now playable in PDF format
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The latest platform to fall victim to the relentless porting of the 1993 classic DOOM is the Portable Document Format, or PDF, developed by Adobe in 1992. Harnessing the built in JavaScript capabilities of the PDF format, high school student ading2210 took it upon themselves to get doom-ascii up...
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I genuinely don’t know, I have set my browser to download pdfs by default and only open them with Sumatra. There might be a scripting layer active in the browser as well though, quite possible.

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Then would you agree that it doesn’t have to do with Adobe Acrobat, as much at it does active script in PDFs and if the reader executes it?

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