Coder Forces Graphing Calculator to Run Doom
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Damn, I don't have any games on my calculator. Ok well I used to have Tetris but someone deleted it when I wasn't looking.
I am impressed. Need to get my hands on that sometime.
Also I think I actually remember that place in Doom. Good times.
Also I think I actually remember that place in Doom. Good times.
Oh no, someone else already did something similar. That means this is lame and this guy's a poser and ARE YOU JOKING?! To even imagine doing something like this with that piece of machinery is... it's uncanny. It requires way more dedication and desire to succeed than I know I have.
I desire this guy to get his own company and eventually create Skynet. Maybe a Dr. Robotnik scenario?
I desire this guy to get his own company and eventually create Skynet. Maybe a Dr. Robotnik scenario?
Students have been using graphing calculators to play games since at least the TI-82. It was policy at my high school that the math teachers would take them away and wipe the memory if you seemed to be goofing off with them.
Of course on the TI-82 it was always simple arcade games like snake and submarine hunt, not Doom... but the modern generations of graphing calculator are pretty damn powerful and are optimized to do the same sort of calculations that a graphics card does, so it's not surprising to see an FPS ported to one.
What is surprising is that TI still gets away with a puke-green 1980s LCD in a calculator that costs as much as a netbook. The physical parts in those machines combined and assembled aren't worth more than $30, they could at least give their customers proper black and white displays.
Of course on the TI-82 it was always simple arcade games like snake and submarine hunt, not Doom... but the modern generations of graphing calculator are pretty damn powerful and are optimized to do the same sort of calculations that a graphics card does, so it's not surprising to see an FPS ported to one.
What is surprising is that TI still gets away with a puke-green 1980s LCD in a calculator that costs as much as a netbook. The physical parts in those machines combined and assembled aren't worth more than $30, they could at least give their customers proper black and white displays.
I don't really see how this is impressive. The TI-84 from '06 was already pushing 130 Kbs of RAM and a 15 Mhz clock speed, basically the only thing that was ever restricting games from being played on it was the shitty resolution, which all graphing calculators are still shamefully behind on.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/1996.png(LK) said:
I look forward to my children being able to play mass effect 2 on their electric toothbrushes, and maybe Duke Nukem on their Graphing Calculators.
But that's a very rudimentary clone in a 2D engine. It wouldn't be all that hard to make. This is a complete paste of the actual game, 3D engine and everything.teh_Canape said:
So yeah, I'm impressed. And DooM's a fuckin' classic, I challenge yous all to beat Thy Flesh Consumed on HMP :3
I'm kinda less impressed since it's just running on a N-Spire which is the newest calc out there. I'm more impressed with the contra game that was running on BASIC on a 84/83 (BASIC is not ment to do smooth graphics like ASM which was what made it so cool).