Coder Forces Graphing Calculator to Run Doom

[P.Tsunami]

Wait, what - hasn't this been done for at least a decade now? I remember hearing stories of people making Doom run (at very low FPS and resolutions even lower than the SNES port) on graphical calculators in the late 90's - or was it only the Wolfenstein 3D engine games?

No, you're completely right. DOOM for calculator goes back to 1995, so this isn't at all news. It's still nifty though!

 

[Joe Cassara]

Doom CLONES for calcs are old history. THIS is a complete PORT of the game.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Wait, what - hasn't this been done for at least a decade now? I remember hearing stories of people making Doom run (at very low FPS and resolutions even lower than the SNES port) on graphical calculators in the late 90's - or was it only the Wolfenstein 3D engine games?

No, you're completely right. DOOM for calculator goes back to 1995, so this isn't at all news. It's still nifty though!

That version of "Doom" isn't actually Doom at all. It's actually just a clone of Wolfenstein 3D with a few graphics from Doom.

Spoiler: This is what that looked like, too.

What this news post is about is actually quite impressive, however. Unlike that shoddy excuse for a "Doom port" above, this new port is actually a full port of the original Doom engine running on a graphing calculator, something that to my knowledge has never been done before. Thus, what you see in the video in the OP is actually Doom on a graphing calculator, unlike the video above which is just a Wolfenstein 3D-style raycaster engine with Doom assets.

 

[P.Tsunami]

That version of "Doom" isn't actually Doom at all. It's actually just a clone of Wolfenstein 3D with a few graphics from Doom.

What this news post is about is actually quite impressive, however. Unlike that shoddy excuse for a "Doom port" above, this new port is actually a full port of the original Doom engine running on a graphing calculator, something that to my knowledge has never been done before. Thus, what you see in the video in the OP is actually Doom on a graphing calculator, unlike the video above which is just a Wolfenstein 3D-style raycaster engine with Doom assets.

I did not know that. Thank you for the information!

 

[Twilight_guy]

Graphing calculators are pretty ridiculously powerful for what they actually have to do but It's still hard to believe they got Doom to run on it. I don't think it will ever run properly the kind of memory management that you need to do on that thing would be ridiculous. Not to mention that graphics will always suck because they just aren't meant to run a game like this.

 

[Supp]

Now to get it to run minecraft...

Now to put a TI-Nspire on minecraft on a TI-Nspire.

 

[jack583]

A) i had no idea that those calculators had that kind of proccessing power.
B) WANT!!!!!

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Sonova...

Why am I only hearing of this capability of graphing calculators?!? WHYYYYYY?!?

*tries to find old graphing calculator*

 

[dragonburner]

Question: Why are graphing calculators still so expensive?

 

[tthor]

Isn't this old news? i know one annoyingly nerdy kid in my class who's mentioned doom on the calculator constantly over the past 2-3 years

 

[superbatranger]

*looks at TI-Nspire on dresser*

I think I know the first thing I'm going to do tomorrow.

 

[Warachia]

Calculators will be "Forced" to play Doom? I wasn't aware they had a choice.

 

[NLS]

Wait, I'be seen Doom on TI calculators many years ago.

 

[DTWolfwood]

wow yo that is just wow. I'd imagine that must be pretty taxing on the calculator to render all of that .