TOOM - Portrait Mode DOOM (Patreon)

https://youtu.be/V74eiGAbvDk

Well now, this doesn't happen every day! Most of the time when I make an off-hand comment in a video wishing that a ridiculous piece of software existed, well. That's that, it's nothing more than a silly wish for a ridiculous piece of software, haha.

Not today though. Because TOOM. IT EXISTS! Now you can play the entirety of Doom v1.9 vertically. On vintage hardware!

When I covered the Radius Pivot a few weeks back, I was showing how DOS games like Doom aren't designed to be used in portrait mode. Obviously, since it wouldn't really make that much sense. But then I went ahead and stated that it would be dumb/fun if something like Portrait Doom actually existed, and hey, it seemed possible if someone were to make a custom version. Dumb, but possible :P

WELP. You never know who's listening, and developer Matt Phillips took it upon himself to make that absurd notion a reality. And Tate mode Doom, or TOOM, is the result! And it even runs in DOS on original PC hardware, none of them newfangled source ports or modern doohickies required. So let's check it out on the Radius Pivot and the LGR Woodgrain PC!

I also took the opportunity to film this actually in portrait orientation, because why not. I'd considered making a special vertical edit of the original Pivot Oddware episode, but seeing as every shot was composed for 16:9 landscape? It would've been too much work for too little payoff if I used the same footage, so I would've had to re-record like 90% of the footage. So yeah, this time around for this simpler video it's all shot vertically. Looks great on a tablet or other rotating devices! Not so much on everything else, heh. Whatever, it was a fun change of pace and I hope you enjoy :)

Here's a link to download TOOM: https://github.com/BigEvilCorporation/PCToom