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Using DoomLinux to mess with someone would be hilarious. Plug the USB into the back of their computer then alter the boot order so it prioritises USB. Each time they start their computer it boots into DOOM.
@gwilikers @dbtng also it only runs on bios cd, so will not boot form usb even if mbr supported
@gwilikers @dbtng but it will not boot because of missing csm/mbr support. Need EFI version (basicly you may run doom on pure EFI without OS, as it supports everything needed and even more)
I think what you are saying is that the project I linked won't work for USB boot on a new EFI system. I imagine your assessment about EFI is correct, but I'm mostly interested in virtualized systems.
Their are several DOOM linux things out there. The version I'm working on builds out with busybox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnXWOUKhTA
My eventual intent is to use DOOM agents as a load tester.
I'd like the ISO to boot, look for a local game, and join a bot to deathmatch.
And then the testing metric would be a simple count. How many dooms can it run?
I have lots of projects. I might finish that one some day.
We used to do this back in the day with Win95.
You could change their shell to Notepad or something, and then that's all the computer would run.
It was a slightly moar advanced trick than stealing their mouse ball.
@dbtng @gwilikers why not just adding DOOM to autoexec.bat?
Um ... because its windows. Really. Almost downvoted you for that.
@dbtng but win95 boots DOS first
Indeed. I guess OP was looking for something besides windows tho ...
and I'm just teasing, of course. I've got several Linux hosts running right now, but I'm typing on Win11.
@dbtng You mentioned Win95, which have option to configure different shell (it allowed to select between explorer/progman shell)
But it allowed to run something in DOS mode before windows starts by editing some bat file (not sure if it's exactly autoexec.bat)