Shoehorning DOOM into different hardware is a classic hacker’s exercise, and [TheKeebProject] managed to squeeze the 1993 classic into a custom keycap with the help of a Raspberry Pi RP2040, …
  • veroxiiEnglish
    32·
    2 years ago

    If a piece of hardware can’t run doom is it even hardware?

    • cassetti@kbin.social
      241·
      2 years ago

      Crazy how people are still finding new things to cram doom into. I remember when that was a popular thing to do twenty years ago haha

      But I’ll admit, stuffing it into a keycap is pretty damn impressive, albeit useless haha

      • wmassinghamEnglish
        181·
        2 years ago

        It wasn’t running on the pregnancy test then, and it’s not running on a keycap now. Both this and the pregnancy test are someone putting their own hardware into a random enclosure and saying “I’m running Doom on X!”

        No, you’re not really. Would you say that I’m running Doom on a banana if I put the same hardware inside a banana peel? No, because it’s just a case for something else.

        If he was running it on the keyboard’s existing processor and it had a screen in the key, like Doom on a Mac touchbar, then I would agree.

        • ToneswirlyEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          He was streaming doom to the pregnancy test. it’s a pretty cool hack, even if he’s not “running” it on the pregnancy test.

  • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    “you can even plug in a keyboard”…

    To play Doom…

    That’s running in a key on your keyboard…

    Not sure why he didn’t take the extra step of tying in the power and keys from the USB keyboard the keycap is living on. I feel like that shouldn’t be too hard

  • AceBonoboEnglish
    172·
    2 years ago

    Bonus points if that’s a touch screen

  • MrSilkwormEnglish
    141·
    2 years ago

    everyone: Idont think there is any other way left to play Doom.

    Dev: Hold my beer

    next: Skyrim playing in a Keycap

  • dobeltipEnglish
    122·
    2 years ago

    I was imagine to put Doom logo on my keyboard. But that is the whole game lol i take it.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    2 years ago

    What exactly is the obsession of putting DOOM of all games into any hardware over other games?

    It’s a fine enough game, but definitely not the game of choice I would choose if I were to choose an old game to be put in random hardware.