Embedded systems that can run Doom

Is the goal here building it, or using it? Because if the goal is to use it, then for maybe $35 you could buy a laptop that would run it perfectly well.

I've run it on a STK1000 with the AVR32 AP7000 (I didn't have a keyboard attached, so I didn't get past the startup demo sequence). But the STK1000 is perhaps out of your budget? It's also got far too little memory - a mere 8 MB ram, which is not a lot when you need a frame buffer display as well. I had to use a nbdevice swap file to get anything much running on the card (although it's kind of cool that you can actually do that sort of thing on the device).

Well, I think I'll get a NGW 100 (they're much cheaper than the STK1000 and have 32 MB RAM) for prototyping and then see if I can build something based on the AP7002, which is a bit cheaper than the AP7000 in the end.

Philipp

The goal is using, however the laptop would be too big. Ideally it should fit into 5 cm x 6 cm x 1 cm or not much more.

Philipp

I should think a PDA would fit the bill then. The original Doom ran happily on unaccelerated framebuffer hardware with an i486DX2/50.

If you're really really into hacking, there are a bunch of dirt cheap Chinese MP3/video/NES-emulator type devices with an ARM7 core (in a Sunplus ASSP) that can be coerced into doing what you want (google "pmp .bin development") to learn how to build native executables for them). For example I have several of these lying around: . Battery lasts about 90 minutes of active screen time.

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snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:

If it's not stuck inside some other device, and/or if it's primary reason to exist is not to control that other device, then it's not embedded. It may not be a PC or a MAC, but that doesn't make it embedded.