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Doom on a modified rotary phone
- stevage 2y agoIt's cool, but I object to the misleading language. This isn't playing Doom on a phone, it's playing Doom using a phone as a controller.
- grujicd 2y agoTitle of original article is "play Doom on rotary phone", not "Doom on rotary phone", so it's a problem with a shortened HN title. When describing playing a game in Serbian we use "on a controller" instead of "with a controller". It may be the same in Lithuanian.
- stevage 2y agoSounds like more of a translation issue than a shortening issue then.
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- erickhill 2y agoIt's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else entirely.
- throwup238 2y agoThe trick is to stop before you rub your joystick raw.
- optimalsolver 2y agoRelevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
- maffydub 2y agoCool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls! A few years back, I built TeleDoom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack hackathon (http://tadhack.com/ http://tadhack.com/). This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.) I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider! This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot
- lisper 2y ago> I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls! Next year.
- oneshtein 2y agoYou can join army and practice Doom by phone or radio today!
- b112 2y agovibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things. As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.
- m4rc3lv 2y agoI liked the story about the hackathon. Too bad something like this does not exist in my country.
- Tepix 2y agoGo and start one!
- Brajeshwar 2y agoAnyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?
- jansan 2y agoNot really electronic devices, but how about facades of high rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of those insane new Chinese skyscrapers? Edit: I was also thinking about the Favicon, but this has been done already: https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
- Brajeshwar 2y agoLet's remember this comment when this is done. I'm sure someone will do it soon, even if it meant just controlling the lights in the windows.
- herodoturtle 2y agoReminds me of the final scene in Hackers (1995). “Beat that!” Pure poetry.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoJet fighter helmets BESM-6 mainframe (if there’s any alive still) Drilling control systems Medical ultrasound scanners Screenless, but… a 3D-printed level with remotely controlled cockroaches. (I’m looking forward to “challenge accepted” comments except for the last two ones)
- DaoVeles 2y agoCan we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name. Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.
- nullhole 2y agoNow I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.
- anthk 2y agoYou can play text adventures over the phone with Asterisk, CMU-sphinx and some tweaked up dfrotz. Also, Frotz has been ported to more devices than Doom.
- _joel 2y agoReminds me of a 90's gameshow back here in the UK, Nightmare. One player would be blindfolded whilst the other team member tried to guide them around a grid avoiding being captured.. "Left, no, my left, no I mean your left, no!!!"| Also https://www.voicebot.net/ https://www.voicebot.net/ or https://voiceattack.com/ https://voiceattack.com/ is what you might want, from a quick google. Add an rj11 to 3.5mm connection, hey presto ;)
- Tepix 2y agoThere was a nice multiplayer game like that at the Expo 2000 with 6 players around a large table display using voice commands. There's a picture still at https://www.unit-design.de/de/projekte/daimler-chrysler-lab-01.php https://www.unit-design.de/de/projekte/daimler-chrysler-lab-...
- Dwedit 2y agoBefore anyone tries to bring it up, Doom never ran on a pregnancy test. That was a case mod, no original parts were used besides the plastic case.
- b112 2y agoWhile Doom many not have, I assure you many felt doom when waiting for the result.
- rob74 2y agoWell, it was still more "on" the pregnancy test than "on" the rotary phone - in this case, the phone is just a (really really bad) controller, Doom is still running on whatever the phone is connected to.
- tempodox 2y agoI shudder to think of the side effects if the test were positive.
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- yapyap 2y agoNot really “on” the phone right? or did I misunderstand the clip, cause it seemed like he was merely controlling it with the phone
- Razengan 2y agoIf you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.
- Tepix 2y agoHere's Doom running on a 64x40 display (not my hack), has anyone gone lower than that? https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/ https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/
- thih9 2y agoThis one is 32x48, 1 bit and based on gut bacteria: https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gut-bacteria-proving-you-really-can-play-the-game-on-anything-184629896.html https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gu...
- Tepix 2y agoThe screenshot obviously doesn't show a 1bit image, in the video you can see one at 5:10 bit it's not dithered well so it looks pretty awful.
- 93po 2y agoif you count subpixels to achieve color, a monochrome 128x32 display is a lot less: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-kinda-running-on-a-pregnancy-test/ https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-kinda-running-on-a-pr... (as other comment pointed out, this is just a shell of a pregnancy test being used)
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- dancemethis 2y agoWon't oh someone think of the enterprise!
- burglins 2y agoThe part about bluetooth is all too relatable. I'm wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?
- tempodox 2y ago> Hello operator? I'd like to report a Cacodemon. When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck! Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…
- 1970-01-01 2y agoDoom With a Modified Rotary Phone. Pedantic, but the title has the wrong preposition for what was actually accomplished.