The Amiga No One Wanted
The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot of ground. However, according to [Dave Farquhar], one of the most popular models today — …read more Continue reading The Amiga No One Wanted
Category Archives: doom
A CaptionCall Phone Succumbs To Doom, Again
Pour one out for yet another device conquered. This one’s a desk phone for conferences and whatnot, a colour display, a numpad, and a bog standard handset with a speaker …read more Continue reading A CaptionCall Phone Succumbs To Doom, Again
What Game Should Replace Doom As The Meme Port Of Choice?
DOOM. The first-person shooter was an instant hit upon its mrelease at the end of 1993. It was soon ported off the PC platform to a number of consoles with …read more Continue reading What Game Should Replace Doom As The Meme Port Of Choice?
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
The days that PDFs were the granny-proof Swiss Army knives of document sharing are definitely over, according to [vk6]. He has managed to pull off the ultimate mind-bender: running Linux …read more Continue reading Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. …read more Continue reading Running Doom on an Apple Lightning to HDMI Adapter
You Can Now Play DOOM In Microsoft Word, But You Probably Shouldn’t
DOOM used to primarily run on x86 PCs. It later got ported to a bunch of consoles with middling success, and then everything under the sun, from random embedded systems …read more Continue reading You Can Now Play DOOM In Microsoft Word, But You Probably Shouldn’t
Nice PDF, But Can It Run DOOM? Yup!
DOOM is a classic game to implement on a variety of platforms, but doompdf by [ading2210] is one we didn’t see coming. It runs a bit slow and controls are …read more Continue reading Nice PDF, But Can It Run DOOM? Yup!
Hackaday Links: January 5, 2025
Good news this week from the Sun’s far side as the Parker Solar Probe checked in after its speedrun through our star’s corona. Parker became the fastest human-made object ever …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 5, 2025
Is There Nothing DOOM Can’t Do?
We all know that “Can it run Doom?” is the first question of a hardware hacker. The 1993 first person shooter from id Software defined an entire genre of games, …read more Continue reading Is There Nothing DOOM Can’t Do?
The Business Card of DOOM
This account of running DOOM on a PCB business card isn’t really about serving the “Will it DOOM?” meme of getting the classic game to run on improbable hardware. Rather, …read more Continue reading The Business Card of DOOM