Automobile dashboards now join Nokia phones, blood pressure cuffs, and battery packs made from potatoes: they can all run DOOM!
Automobile dashboards now join Nokia phones, blood pressure cuffs, and battery packs made from potatoes: they can all run DOOM!
Getting Doom to run on something is not newsworthy.
Sure it is. Doom is a very optimized program with available source that for almost 20 years has served as a benchmark for demonstrating the ability to hack a piece of electronics with a display.
(This is the spirit of the post: Doom is a fun and silly demonstration of the software being hackable.)
They can get it to run on everything. We don’t need to hear about every damn toaster getting Doom on it.
It is not about the thing having enough power to run it. It is about hacking it to be even able to run arbitrary code on it.
It’s not interesting to you that a car that’s been around for 4 or 5 years only just now had Doom run on it for the first time? It took a long time to hack, so that’s kinda newsworthy
Okay, doomer.
I got it running on your mom
I think it’s quite fun :)
you must be fun at parties…
No one wants to hear about a 30 year old game running on weird hardware at parties…
You can just downvote and move on, why so dramatic?
That won’t stop the next 20 doom runs on your electric kettle stories from cluttering up shit.
Oh yeah, but some random company launching the next version of the previous product that does exactly the same thing as the 10 previous iterations is?
Oh yeah, Whatabout this thing you didn’t say