"Doom" runs on any hardware

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...

John

It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Huh, and a rather old one at that? That's kind of amazing.

I mean, a digital camera needs quite a bit of processing power, or acceleration (which probably wasn't available at the time) to handle JPEG compression, basic image processing, and analysis (white correction, filtering, calculating focus, etc.).

A look around suggests it's a 66MHz PowerPC, which is pretty amazing in

Certainly good enough to run Doom, and maybe enough to handle Quake, for that matter!

Tim

Thanks. A few more:

Doom running on GE Vivid S5 Ultrasound

DOOM Running on The Macbook Pro's Touch Bar

Doom on the Apple Watch

Doom on a TI-Nspire calculator

Doom on a TI-83 Plus Calculator. Start at 7:28.

Doom piano

Doom on a Commodore 64 ( M.O.O.D. version)

Doom on a Commodore Vic 20

Doom on a Canon Pixma printer

Doom on a CNC controller

Cool!

Doom was one of the last PC games that used soley CPU-based rendering; Quake 1 did as well but had significantly higher requirements - Pentium-class CPU and 16 megs of RAM for any kind of decent performance IIRC.

After that just about any 3D game required hardware acceleration of the OpenGL/DirectX variety

Not entirely true! Abrash (from the same optimizing fame as Quake, and numerous other big software hits, articles, books and beyond) did a software renderer for Unreal Tournament 2004 (UT2k4).

Dunno if there's any work more recent than that, but with GPUs becoming more and more GP, perhaps there will be something of a return to that. And also, the highly-parallel systems that JL's always talking about, will probably get here eventually.

Tim