DOOM left running on ASUS MyPal PDA for 2.5 years finally crashes — bug that crashes the game when gametic value hits 2,147,483,647 ticks likely to blame

Released in December of 1993 after an unbelievable amount of hype among PC gamers hooked up to the then-novel Internet, DOOM codified the standards of the nascent first-person shooter genre and was so popular that “Doom clone” was the way we described first-person shooters for years after its release. Gamers have put millions, if not billions of hours, into the title in the nearly 32 years since its launch, thanks to a virtual cornucopia of mods and user levels, but it’s pretty unlikely that many of…