The creator posted a full write-up here: <a href="https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to-an-ikea-tradfri-lamp/" rel="nofollow">https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to...</a>
We should all take some time to consider that our light bubs have more powerful computers than the first computer many of us once owned.<p>This perspective makes scifi stuff like "smart dust" seem a lot more feasible. Ubiquitous computing, what will it bring us?
Reminds me of Ship of Theseus.<p>"If you replace all the parts of a ship is it still the same ship?".<p>This project is equivalent to "Doom running on 40-MHz Cortex M4 found in Ikea lamps".<p>Good work nevertheless!
These are always awesome and I never stop being impressed by what folks can do.<p>What's left in the world for "DOOM running on ____"?<p>Here's my idea:<p>Could we do this with a drone swarm? And have players still control DOOM guy somehow? I'm imagining sitting on the beach at night and someone is playing a level while everyone looks up at the sky at a massive "screen".
Only tangentially related, but has been bothering me: How does a simple rechargable bicycle light cost $20 upwards?<p>- It can't be about chip/logic, as that's a commodity these days (as this post celebretes).<p>- It can't be LEDs, because they are dirt cheap too, especially red ones.<p>- Building the plastic case doesn't seem to warrant such a high price.<p>- The battery needs very little capacity, magnitudes lower than e.g. that of a phone.<p>- Is it maybe the charging mechanism through USB? Are there some crazy patent fees?
The video, and the write-up (<a href="https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to-an-ikea-tradfri-lamp/" rel="nofollow">https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to...</a>) seem to be unavailable.
This was a nice porting job!
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/</a> - could use some new content.<p>Next level would be finding the cheapest modern mass produced device that can run Doom with no hardware modifications.<p>This means use whatever I/O the device comes with for controller and display.<p>Using external display sort of distracts from the coolness.<p>Second part - it has to be currently in production(like this Ikea lamp). I mean you can find a $10 device/computer from 10 years ago that will run Doom.
"Only 108kb of ram."<p>That quote reminded me of my first computer: The ZX81, which had 1kb of RAM!
About 150 bytes of that was used by system variables, and depending on how you use the screen up to 768 bytes are used by the display buffer.<p>And yet I managed to write code on it as a kid. :)
(Of course nothing like Doom)
Reminds me of this comic:<p><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17" rel="nofollow">https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17</a>
Kinda disappointed to see no-one has backported Doom to a TRS-80 (yet) but that's probably asking a bit too much.<p>The pregnacy-test-kit running Doom was fake? Somehow missed all the front-page retractions on that one.
I know this sounds crazy now but with improving brain computer interfaces, and I know it is not as good as they say, in a couple years maybe lets say 20 someone will run Doom on that brain implant. We all know we will see this during lifetime. I mean, you can buy in a shop right now a device that helps you control your pc with your brain waves. How is that not exciting? Is it amazing to be a science nerd?
Fake News (Just a little bit). I was just thinking about using unmodified lamp as a Linux Terminal. I learned morse in the army in 70's. I already had a lamp which morsed time of day, but it was annoying, because morse numbers are so long.
That a very powerful lightbulb!<p>It has more CPU perf than my first computer, and costs 1000 times less at the same time.<p>The progress of semiconductor industry is fantastical.
Constrained resources often lead to exceptionally brilliant software. It’s as if resource constraints inspire a form of discipline and frugality that’s demanded from us. We become acutely aware of it, and reprimand our brains from complacency. From Apollo program to today’s Internet-of-Shit, somewhere we lost our ability to focus and bloated ourselves with sugar-high of processing power and memory. Just because it exists, and is cheap, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.