Here at Ars, we're suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from ... Adobe Acrobat included some robust support for JavaScript in the PDF file format.

DOOM has finally been ported to HTML5 and JavaScript, joining the growing club of games that showcase the incredible opportunities of new web technologies, each one putting another bullet in Flash ...

These days you can run Doom anywhere on just about anything, with things like porting Doom to JavaScript these days about as interesting as writing Snake in BASIC on one’s graphical calculator.

As for how it works, it's possible to compile C code – a portable flavor of id Software's Doom in this case – into JavaScript to run in a PDF; key inputs can be grabbed and a framebuffer used for ...