[STEAM] Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible

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Here at Ars, we've taken pleasure in reporting on versions of Doom that run on everything from

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to

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. So when we hear that a piece of game-playing hardware from the '90s (or later) can't run Doom, our ears perk up.

That hardware is the Neo Geo, an early '90s game console that players of a certain age will remember for

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and its relatively strong pixel-pushing power for the time. Despite that relative power, though,

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argues that the Neo Geo's architecture makes it particularly ill-suited for a port of id's famously easy-to-port game.

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At first glance, the Neo Geo seems like it should be up to the task of running Doom. The Motorola 68000 CPU inside the console is the same one powering the Commodore Amiga, which has seen

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over the years.

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