See Doom Running on Something Smaller Than a Credit Card
By the end of next year, the original Doom game will officially be three decades old. However, despite its age, it will be a long time before its legacy will be forgotten. The fact that it's one of the most genre-defining FPS games in history means that it probably won't fade into obscurity for a long time, if at all. To this day it's still influencing other titles, and over the years, it's been the subject of experimentation as people try to get it to run on all kinds of wacky devices, including this one.
In a video uploaded to YouTube a few days ago, the channel Adafruit Industries has shown that it's possible to play 1993's Doom on a computer chip board, in this case a System-in-Package module, that's about the size of, if not smaller than, a credit card. The short footage shows that the game runs perfectly through a 1.3-inch TFT display running at a resolution of 240x240. The controls comprise a series of basic switches directly on the board, and they've even managed to implement a headphone jack, so anyone playing can still get sound.
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There have been many unusual devices that Doom has been ported to, but this version, nicknamed «PINKY» is probably one of the smallest machines that runs the game. An additional blog post from the creator explains that this iteration of the game being run on the ESP32 Pico device is called «PrBoom» which is described as a «minimal version» of Doom. User DESK OF LADYADA, who initiated the port, says that the screen is probably the smallest that can be used in this instance that still has «pixel perfect» emulation.
It's an impressive port in general, showing that id Software's classic release still holds a special place in the
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