[brundolf]

But can it run Doom?

[FartyMcFarter]

Yes. I don't expect anyone can simulate that at real-time speed though (unless they take a lot of shortcuts, e.g. simulating at a higher level, which becomes a bit pointless).

[dllthomas]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife speeds things up a lot, although my uninformed guess is still not enough.

[ctlachance]

I suppose any Turing complete language could. You could run DOOM in PowerPoint if you were masochistic enough.

[hedora]

There’s a Doom clone for excel:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyOJsJlLhI