Doom can 'run' on a DNS database now, and one of the technology's pioneers says 'I can't decide whether this is deliciously horrible, or else horribly delicious'

In the early 2000's, the perennial question was whether a powerful system could run Crysis. These days, it's whether a minimal one can run Doom. We've seen an affirmative answer to this question when it comes to vapes, a motherboard BIOS, and even a pregnancy test. And now? A DNS database.

To be clear, we've seen Doom broken down into DNS text records before, but this time it seems like the database is doing more than file storage. This new version is courtesy of Corey Quinn over at The Register, who explains: "I have compiled Doom for a 32-bit machine whose arithmetic and memory live in DNS."

DNS, for those unaware, means ' domain name system ', and is the system that translates URLs into IP addresses that computers can actually interact with to visit. You can also create your own DNS databases with your own entries.

Quinn realised that such a database could be used essentially as a "librarian", …