[dimitropoulos]

(not arguing, really just want to hear your thoughts to this!) so re: video card - but I did write what I don't know what else to call other than "a graphics driver" (i.e. it takes Doom palette pixel values and converts them to something the user sees on their screen with ASCII art). what else would you call that? or are you saying video card would have to be at the level of VSCode or my operating system that actually lights up physical pixels on my screen.

[wvenable]

If instead of WASM you decided to emulate a different DOOM target like a PC then you'd have to emulate the actual VGA graphics hardware and enough of the other PC hardware to run the game. That level of emulation is a difficult project on it's own.

[dimitropoulos]

got it, ok sweet. thank you so much for explaining. I don't know a ton about these programming circles, so I don't want to say the wrong thing if I can avoid it. Sounds like you're saying that no WASM runtime is, in this sense, qualifying - which makes sense!