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A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
- bombcar 4y agoThe impressiveness of this overcomes the disappointment that it wasn't some actual mass-produced ornament that happened to have a CPU powerful enough to run Doom ;)
- joshspankit 4y agoSounds like it’s time for a kickstarter
- yreg 4y agoWell, no. bombcar wants it to be a hack on a device that has a different purpose intended by its makers.
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, I'd love the little ornament as is and would probably buy one, but the best "it runs Doom" are when it's run on something clearly not designed for it (a printer, etc).
- joshspankit 4y agoAgreed on the “it runs Doom”, but it could be great as a “run apps from the community” where it’s super easy to share and install code (community directory and an install script that can select them, for example). Just ideas. This thing looks super cool and runs surprisingly well. Makes me want to see it do more...
- tunnuz 4y agoMy thoughts exactly
- mc32 4y agoReminds me of the Tinycircuits that have been posted here before: https://tinycircuits.com/ https://tinycircuits.com/
- waltbosz 4y agoDoes anyone have experience with Tinycircuits products? My 9-year-old daughter wants the TV and arcade for Christmas. How hackable are they? I'm afraid it's just going to become a toy she plays with for a day and gets bored. ... Oh, also since this is a Doom post, I'll selfishly mention that I always wish these ported-Doom-to-hardward-x projects would demo using the Ultimate Simpsons Doom 2 mod that I helped publish. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Simpsons_Doom https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Simpsons_Doom
- crecker 4y ago
- akie 4y agoI'm sorry your version didn't get any votes or comments. Best time to post on HN is around (say) 15:00 CET, so that Europeans will see it in the afternoon and Americans can see it with their morning coffee.
- trymas 4y agoOriginal comment author posted this around that time. I would be surprised that if being late by 1-2h makes post's success so much worse? EDIT: On similar note - I wonder how HN's duplicate post detection works? If post does not reach some amount of upvotes, then it does not count in the duplicate index?
- huhtenberg 4y agoI am a simple man. I see a Doom port - I upvote it.
- kennyadam 4y agoNice reddit-tier comment - couldn't think of a pun too?
- Quinner 4y agoBah, humbug.
- aidenn0 4y agoThose who do not study the reddit comment section are Doomed to repeat it?
- huhtenberg 4y agoI always assumed this format was a derivative of Churchil's saying ("I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best"). Looked it up and apparently it has a distinct source of its own.
- bobsmooth 4y agoThe only thing more impressive than Doom being run on everything is how increasingly tiny the computer you need to do is.
- leeoniya 4y agodoes anyone make Doomagachis?
- lostgame 4y agoOh; no, I forgot to feed my demon enough souls, and it died. :(
- nine_k 4y agoIronically, the original IBM PC was of course completely incapable of running Doom. You needed an AT with at least a 386, and preferably a 486.
- muziq 4y agoI’m sure it’ll only be a couple of years before this needs to be reviewed ;)
- animitronix 4y agoTake my money!!
- hef19898 4y agoIf there ever was a Christmas game, it is Doom!
- zoomablemind 4y agoNot that far away from the TV commercials of some major hardware store running in this season and advertizing chain-saws, drills, and lawn-mowers nicely wrapped under the Xmas tree...
- kridsdale1 4y agoIIRC there was a WAD file that added Santa hats to all the enemies. Probably had festive weapons too. It’s been 25+ years.
- rzzzt 4y agoThere's a Die Hard 2 movie tie-in game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Die_Hard_2_-_Die_Harder_1992 https://archive.org/details/msdos_Die_Hard_2_-_Die_Harder_19...
- pitched 4y agoIf anyone else is curious what’s inside… Article says this is a Game Boy Advance port running on an ESP32 dev kit with an upgraded flash chip. Speaker is connected to a GPIO and display is using the serial line.
- yreg 4y agoThis is unreasonably cute.
- ChrisArchitect 4y ago
- barbazoo 4y agoBecause not everyone sees the same posts. So I'm happy this came up again.
- northerdome 4y agoA very foone Christmas!
- rcarmo 4y agoI have to wonder about the HN attention span: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33877009 (posted 2 days ago, no reactions - not complaining, just fascinated...)
- jjordan 4y agoA lot of it is dumb luck. HN gets a lot of posts, most which see little to no activity. A few early upvotes seem to make all the difference in what eventually surfaces and what doesn't.
- Yahivin 4y agoOk, now network them.
- aspectmin 4y agoThis!
- periheli0n 4y agoAnd upgrade to Duke Nukem.
- duneisagoodbook 4y agoDo we know what the minimum physical size is to run doom these days?
- Razengan 4y agoAt this point it's easier to just say what doesn't play Doom.
- ok_dad 4y agoSeeing as how it runs on a pregnancy test [0], I believe this is that list: * ... [0]: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066 https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066 (This original was well below the fold on Google, shame on them.)
- detaro 4y ago... that's an new display stuffed in the shell of a pregnancy test, running the game on an external processor: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448 https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448
- Freak_NL 4y agoAs a fellow Dutchman I hate how it takes literally just two seconds to hear that the author is Dutch as well just by the accent nearly all of us English speaking Dutch suffer from (conversely he could do the same with my pronunciation of English). It's like a national shibboleth as impossible to get rid of as herpes.
- periheli0n 4y agoDon't be so hard on him (and your fellow compatriotes). His english is perfectly fine. Wouldn't it be weirder if he had no perceptible accent whatsoever? I find it quite refreshing to be able to tell where someone is from, judging from their accent alone. When I was a kid, growing up in a rather rural area, I could tell with an accuracy of about 20km which area around my hometown someone I just met was from, just from by the fine differences in their accent. But in fact very few people like being identified like that. I get it, breach of privacy and all that... but on the other hand, is it so bad to know where someone is from, when having a conversation with them The real problem is of course the biases in people's head... "dutch people are such and such", and so on. I say we should fight the biases, not the fact that one's geographical origin can be guessed.
- Sprite_tm 4y agoNot Freak_NL, but in my experience the only people actually good at recognizing the Dutch accent are Dutch people themselves (unless the accent is really bad). So in practice, it's more of a quirk than something practically bad.
- prmoustache 4y agoCould be worse, you could be french.