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asdaksdhksajd · 2017-01-03 22:15:43+00:00

doom was 52KLOC of C.

SurrealSoul | karma 651 | avg karma 4.12 · | 2017-05-24 13:47:27+00:00

Doom is 4196KB.

That's pretty crazy

elurg | karma 203 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2021-11-17 04:45:37

Doom is less that 30 years old and was resource-intensive for the time.

Tichy | karma 16300 | avg karma 1.62 · | 2010-07-07 23:23:30+00:00

b20000 | karma 1229 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2022-03-30 20:53:50

cranberryturkey | karma 240 | avg karma 0.22 · | 2024-01-02 00:09:01

harrisonpage | karma 47 | avg karma 1.81 · | 2024-01-02 01:12:29

Koshkin | karma 7543 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2022-02-18 09:43:56

marcosdumay | karma 27273 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2017-08-17 14:40:44+00:00

What is also true for DOOM.

ryandrake | karma 48548 | avg karma 4.45 · | 2018-12-07 04:20:13

To put it into perspective, that's larger than the entire post-install size of the original DOOM PC video game, including all sound and artwork.

nabla9 | karma 38285 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2020-09-07 12:22:44

Yes. I remember that too. I edited it to 4 mb just before you responded.

The point is you can't run doom on hundreds of bytes or even several kilobytes or in 8 bit microcontroller.

dokem | karma 314 | avg karma 0.69 · | 2018-06-19 18:21:47+00:00

What's a doom?

floppy123 | karma 5 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2020-05-09 17:45:25+00:00

IT IS DOOM

melling | karma 20591 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2013-10-28 15:28:03

The original Doom was under 50,000 lines of code.

alexnewman | karma 237 | avg karma 0.22 · | 2016-05-21 06:37:56+00:00

Doom!

Narishma | karma 3253 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2018-10-02 05:48:33

Doom only needed 4MB of RAM.

Drblessing | karma 156 | avg karma 1.11 · | 2023-05-18 15:20:37

What about doom?

grimlck | karma 358 | avg karma 4.77 · | 2011-04-22 13:48:12+00:00

Doom actually ran at 320x200

Good points regardless though.

rpmisms | karma 3127 | avg karma 1.78 · | 2019-10-28 13:22:11+00:00

Doom Source. I don't do C, but this stuff just... made sense.

nabla9 | karma 38285 | avg karma 4.67 · | 2023-03-01 16:41:00

Doom was released 30 years ago 1993. The minimum system requirement was a 66 Hz 486 processor running at 3.50 Watts.

That's 3500 time increase in power efficiency, or over 30% annual increase in power efficiency.