Doom on a modified rotary phone

Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!<p>A few years back, I built TeleDoom (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU</a>) for the TADHack hackathon (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tadhack.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tadhack.com&#x2F;</a>).<p>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&#x2F;90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)<p>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!<p>This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot

Before 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.

Anyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?

Here&#x27;s Doom running on a 64x40 display (not my hack), has anyone gone lower than that?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tannr.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;64x64-led-matrix-doom&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tannr.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;14&#x2F;64x64-led-matrix-doom&#x2F;</a>

&gt; Hello operator? I&#x27;d like to report a Cacodemon.<p>When you&#x27;ve got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck!<p>Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…

Doom <i>With</i> a Modified Rotary Phone. Pedantic, but the title has the wrong preposition for what was actually accomplished.

Can we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name.<p>Like a calculator app a friend made called the &#x27;Crapulator&#x27;. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the &#x27;wrongulator&#x27;.

The part about bluetooth is all too relatable. I&#x27;m wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?

It&#x27;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.

I liked the story about the hackathon. Too bad something like this does not exist in my country.

Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout &quot;turn left!&quot;, &quot;move forward!&quot;, &quot;fire!&quot;, etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.

If you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.

Not really “on” the phone right? or did I misunderstand the clip, cause it seemed like he was merely controlling it with the phone

It&#x27;s cool, but I object to the misleading language. This isn&#x27;t playing Doom <i>on</i> a phone, it&#x27;s playing Doom <i>using</i> a phone as a controller.

Relevant SMBC:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smbc-comics.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2011-02-17" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smbc-comics.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;2011-02-17</a>