The original intent behind this tool was to generate plain text/ASCII art animations for web design projects. It works by tracing an image sequence into an array of strings that are rendered as pre ...

may be invisible, but they play an important role in how your code works across platforms. This blog explains EOL characters, their ASCII codes, how Python handles them, and how to avoid common bugs ...

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. In a ...

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action ...

The original Doom is now playable in a custom PDF file, further contributing to its legacy of being ported to just about every platform under the sun. Developed by ading2210, a self-described “high ...

You can get a good idea of what it feels like to play DOOM in PDF by playing the movie below. A normal PDF is just a static document format, but in fact there is a ...

Here at Ars, we’re suckers for stories about hackers getting Doom running on everything from CAPTCHA robot checks and Windows’ notepad.exe to AI hallucinations and fluorescing gut bacteria. Despite ...

In the latest edition of “can it run Doom?” a high school student has discovered a way to port the classic PC game to a PDF file. Although PDF documents are known to simply host text and images, the ...

Doom has been ported to devices like toasters, a fridge, and pretty much everything else you can think of, so the frontier for truly remarkable things that can run Doom is wearing thin. But one ...

There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing. Considering the more-than-30-year-old shooter, Doom, has been ported to many unexpected places, it was ...

A very simple and lightweight JavaScript library (676 bytes minified) to animate ASCII art. Essentially, what it does is animate an "intro animation" of your ASCII art. AsciiVision is a creative ...