Let’s find out together which are the most incredible Doom ports: from pregnancy tests to typewriters.
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Doom on a pregnancy test, but do you realize it? The proverb that goes around the Net is right: “if it has a screen, Doom also runs on it”, and at the moment we have no proof to the contrary, quite the contrary. If it can turn on a deal that costs a few Euros, meant to piss on it, then it must be true. Searching on Youtube, but also just throwing an eye on Reddit, it was immediately confirmed: the id Software game runs on automatic ticket machines, forerunners of smartphones, on consoles of the 80s, on barcode scanners. Going forward, more and more commonly used objects are including screens and processors, even if not very powerful, giving way to expand the compatibility of Doom, that is a technical prodigy that continues to amaze yesterday as today, albeit for other reasons. And if you don’t believe us, look what we have found for you …
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The pregnancy test
With that screen it is also difficult to pass the first level, but this does not mean that the game runs and also at a more than decent frame rate. The pixels are as big as cacodemon and of course without an auxiliary keyboard it’s impossible to interact, but you know what? It can be added. But why play Doom on a deal like this, you may wonder, but why #faffigo, would say Fabio Celenza’s Mick Jagger.
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What time is it? The time of the BFG
We start from a modern instrument, consequently more powerful than the original hardware on which it was designed Doom, he was born in’Apple Watch, the hi-tech watch that among other things offers a very high quality screen. During a hacker challenge, a young man from Tel Aviv managed to create a port of Doom for Apple Watch din very few hours, and the result is nothing short of extraordinary. The graphics are top notch, the fluidity less, but the real problem is the controls.
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The cacodemon say cheese
Let’s raise the level of the wow factor, and move on to a tool that at first glance would have no hope with the game id Software: an old digital camera, one of the first to tell the truth, branded Kodak. Surprise of surprises here Doom runs beautifully, and the screen proves more than enough to make everything clearly visible and in the right format. Being a camera, it also has the number of keys necessary to command the character in the best way. Yes, you can even think about finishing it …
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Full speed to the afterlife
Here too we find ourselves in front of a very respectable computer, that is the one mounted on board an arrogant Porsche 911. In this case, what is surprising is not so much the quality of the port, the computing power of the deal in question is of a high level even if it does not have a dedicated video card like a normal PC, but the way in which the character is controlled: turn the steering wheel to rotate on themselves, to change weapons and fire the gear lever and to move the accelerator and brake pedals forward and backward … all with the car running!
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2+2= 666
Doom it also runs on an electronic calculator, and the model in question is not even first-rate but marketed at the turn of the century, until 2004. The quality is certainly not high, and in this version Doom seems to look more like Wolfenstein 3D than to his illustrious successor, proposing a graphic that seems almost in wireframe. The technical exercise, however, is certainly of a high level, or at least enough to leave us speechless.
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Honey, it’s hot as hell!
Lastly we left one of the most surprising ports we have found around: Doom playable through a thermostat! That’s right, let’s talk about one of those small computers that are used to keep the room temperature under control, and which allows us to activate and deactivate the heating. Clearly we are talking about a rather advanced model, but not that much: always a damn thermostat remains. Yet the quality is high and thanks to the help of a pad, here they use that SNES, the port also proves to be perfectly playable.
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