[lostgame]

The music is terrible - (gives me 90's website MIDI audio PTSD :P) - but it's a cute idea.

Would this actually be an effective CAPTCHA? E.G. Security-wise?

Also, speaking of 90's-internet PTSD, I actually almost mistook this for a spam banner ad knowing already what I went into. Wayyy too many of those 'punch the monkey' or 'shoot the duck' animated banner ads that didn't even care where you shot. :P

[drivers99]

That's just the original DOOM music (first level, E1M1) on a Sound Blaster AWE32 or something similar, so it's completely accurate.

[failwhaleshark]

MIDI FTW.

GUS Extreme, MT32, and SB16 Pro (or AWE64 Gold) with a Wave Blaster I or II, and you're set for the basic flavors of MIDI. Maybe an Ad Lib for extra vintageness and a Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle too.

[lostgame]

Guys, I didn't mean the music itself was terrible, I meant the fact that music was included to be auto-on to start in web content produced post-2002...

I would have personally put the audio as off by default, with the little icon to set it to on. :)

I am fully aware what the DOOM soundtrack sounds like an my complaint is that there is audio at all - especially on by default - and that it reminds me of those awful websites from the 90's that did this.

[Jordrok]

I get your point - it was way too loud initially and would quickly get annoying after the second or third time if it was being used as an actual captcha.

That said, the music is what really sold it for me. How better to perfectly highlight the absurdity of proving your humanity by going on a virtual demon-slaying spree than dropping you right in the middle of a retro 90s metal cacophony!

[failwhaleshark]

Are there any browsers which prevent auto-starting of music/sounds or extensions that do such?

[banana_giraffe]

Generally something that can be deterministically scripted to work around won't work well as a captcha:

https://imgur.com/a/mbLnTH7

Here I'm just clicking the entire row of pixels four times.

Even if you fixed that (perhaps misses could trigger a failure), then you still need to create a problem that's hard for a computer to solve .. finding the monster seems pretty straightforward.

[foxyv]

If you think that's bad, try listening to Doom on PC Speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78TbnytFOk&ab_channel=Zdend...

[gentleman11]

The music is fantastic and classic, but there are modern remixes with actual guitar that are even better. Doom 1 and 2 both have full soundtrack remakes that fans made (possibly, by the dusk fellow?)

[rzzzt]

The 3DO port had each song played by a band:

- http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Doom_(3DO)

- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2880E9A7DFF6C25