Over the decades, people have managed to get the original Doom to run on all sorts of interesting devices, and a fan ports the game to Notepad.

Representative Image (Credit -- Bethesda) Windows Notepad is a simple text editor that has been around since the 1980s. This software commonly allows users to create and edit basic text documents.

A few lines of commands create interesting Notepad programming tricks that can surprise you. Save them as a bat file run them.

Classic FPS Doom is running in Microsoft Notepad thanks to game developer Sam Chiet, who shared footage of the shooter project that has now gone viral ...

Editing a game file in Notepad unlocked the full version of Balatro, causing panic at the publisher - which responded quickly to the unfolding disaster.

Earlier this year, someone got it to run inside Excel. Like Notepad's noisy graphics, Excel's sluggish framerate makes the game almost unplayable, or at the very least unenjoyable.

Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version' advertisement ...