Doom demo: technical fact sheet and FAQ

What is the story?
Doom running on an IBM Z mainframe through the WND Terminal Emulator using VT/xterm over SSH. The public browser demo requires no signup.

Where can readers play?
https://wndsoftware.com/doom

Where does the game run?
On an IBM Z mainframe. The browser is the terminal interface used by the player.

What kind of terminal session is this?
VT/xterm over SSH. Use that description when explaining this demo’s connection.

What appears on screen?
Doom rendered as text characters inside the WND Terminal interface. The screenshots show the actual browser player.

What controls are available?
The player displays its current movement, fire and door controls. Desktop screenshots show arrow keys for movement, Space to fire and E to open doors. Phone screenshots show the touch controls.

Which game and terminal projects should receive credit?
Doom: id Software. The text-based port used in the demo is DOOM-ASCII by Wojciech Graj, based on doomgeneric. Project: https://github.com/wojciech-graj/doom-ascii. WND Software supplies the terminal interface and demo integration. The demo uses the original shareware first episode.

What does WND Software sell?
WND Terminal, terminal emulation software for existing host applications. IBM mainframe 3270, IBM i 5250 and VT/xterm are among its supported connections. Product details: https://wndsoftware.com/product.

Who handles interviews and questions?
Albert Joseph, WND Software: press@wndsoftware.com.

What can editors download?
Two original screenshots, a short silent gameplay clip, the WND Software logo mark, the release, supplied story copy, the short news brief and enterprise story copy. Captions and credits accompany the files.
