Text Mode Doom

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Open-source hackers find it bizarrely novel to incorporate text-mode frontends for the applications which would traditionally be best suited to a more detailed interactive display. Doom is no exception, and there have been a number of attempts to develop a text-mode front-end for it.

[edit] SMMU

The source port SMMU incorporated a DOS text-based renderer.

Baron of Hell, rendered by SMMU's textmode

Cacodemon, rendered by SMMU's textmode

Cyberdemon, rendered by SMMU's textmode

[edit] libcaca

Libcaca is a text-rendering library that can be plugged into a variety of other programs and renderers, including libSDL. Doom (most likely prBoom) was used as a demonstration of the library's novelty.