--- title: The Neo Geo Does Run DOOM After All | daily.dev description: Two independent projects have successfully ported DOOM to the Neo Geo console, overcoming its 64 kB RAM limitation. Doom64kB adapts the Doom8088 port for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-neo-geo-does-run-doom-after-all-ocl3rss5z twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Neo Geo Does Run DOOM After All | daily.dev og:description: Two independent projects have successfully ported DOOM to the Neo Geo console, overcoming its 64 kB RAM limitation. Doom64kB adapts the Doom8088 port for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-neo-geo-does-run-doom-after-all-ocl3rss5z og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ocL3RsS5Z.png og:image:alt: The Neo Geo Does Run DOOM After All og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Neo Geo Does Run DOOM After All **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Two independent projects have successfully ported DOOM to the Neo Geo console, overcoming its 64 kB RAM limitation. Doom64kB adapts the Doom8088 port for 8088-based systems, stripping out texture mapping, saving/loading, and music. DoomGeo takes a different approach by embracing the Neo Geo's native sprite-based architecture rather than fighting it, requiring a near-complete rewrite of the rendering engine. The key takeaway is that DOOM's portability is less about raw CPU power and more about how framebuffer-friendly the target hardware is. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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