Doom was created In 1992 by id software.
John Carmack was working on a new game engine called the doom engine.
The rest of the id Software team finished the Wolfenstein 3D prequel.
The game was realeased in 1993 in an episodic format.
The first episode available as shareware and two more episodes available by mail order.
The first episode was largely designed by John Romero.
The title proved extremely popular, with the full version of the game selling one million copies.
Doom was coded in the language C.
It was highly optimised to be esy to run.
This is why Doom has been easily ported to nearly every electronic device with a screen.
There is a large group of people who try get dooom running on nearly everthing.
The porting of doom is only supported by id software who made all the code open source.
This encourage fans of the game to push the limits of what a device can do by running Doom on it
Here are some of the craziest doom ports.
Doom has run on an ossiliscope, tractor, chocolate bar, atm,TI-84 plus calculator,
apple watch, Ipod, kodak camera, piano and macbook touchbar.
