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The pregnancy test thing comes up in every one of these threads about "Doom running on XYZ" - the "Doom running on a pregnancy test" was (effectively) totally f
by jasongill 4y ago
The pregnancy test thing comes up in every one of these threads about "Doom running on XYZ" - the "Doom running on a pregnancy test" was (effectively) totally fake. He removed the internals from the pregnancy test and put in a tiny OLED screen where the pregnancy test's LCD indicator had been. It wasn't even used as a display, it was simply where the display was.
(It was still cool because of the tiny OLED screen, and it was a funny story, but it's become some kind of legend because I think people took the story as "he ran Doom on the CPU and screen inside a pregnancy test!" which it's clear you saw through but I guess some people didn't)
- teddyh 4y agoOh, so it was even more fake than I thought, then.
- kuschku 4y agoDo note that foone uses they/them pronouns, please use those if possible :) Also, afaik, the pregnancy test would actually have the performance necessary to run the test, just no hardware to display it.
- jasongill 4y agoNo, it was just the plastic shell of the pregnancy test that was "original"; IGN says: "it's important to note that Foone did replace the display and microcontroller, so the only part of the original tester is the shell. However, getting Doom running and playable on a 128x32 pixel monochrome display at 1bpp is still an impressive feat."