[HN Gopher] A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
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A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom
Author : distcs
Score : 237 points
Date : 2022-12-08 12:30 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| crecker wrote:
| akie wrote:
| I'm sorry your version didn't get any votes or comments. Best
| time to post on HN is around (say) 15:00 CET, so that Europeans
| will see it in the afternoon and Americans can see it with
| their morning coffee.
| trymas wrote:
| Original comment author posted this around that time. I would
| be surprised that if being late by 1-2h makes post's success
| so much worse?
|
| EDIT: On similar note - I wonder how HN's duplicate post
| detection works? If post does not reach some amount of
| upvotes, then it does not count in the duplicate index?
| animitronix wrote:
| Take my money!!
| duneisagoodbook wrote:
| Do we know what the minimum physical size is to run doom these
| days?
| hef19898 wrote:
| If there ever was a Christmas game, it is Doom!
| kridsdale1 wrote:
| IIRC there was a WAD file that added Santa hats to all the
| enemies. Probably had festive weapons too. It's been 25+ years.
| zoomablemind wrote:
| Not that far away from the TV commercials of some major
| hardware store running in this season and advertizing chain-
| saws, drills, and lawn-mowers nicely wrapped under the Xmas
| tree...
| northerdome wrote:
| A very foone Christmas!
| pitched wrote:
| If anyone else is curious what's inside... Article says this is a
| Game Boy Advance port running on an ESP32 dev kit with an
| upgraded flash chip. Speaker is connected to a GPIO and display
| is using the serial line.
| bombcar wrote:
| The impressiveness of this overcomes the disappointment that it
| wasn't some actual mass-produced ornament that happened to have a
| CPU powerful enough to run Doom ;)
| tunnuz wrote:
| My thoughts exactly
| joshspankit wrote:
| Sounds like it's time for a kickstarter
| yreg wrote:
| Well, no. bombcar wants it to be a hack on a device that has
| a different purpose intended by its makers.
| bombcar wrote:
| Yeah, I'd love the little ornament as is and would probably
| buy one, but the best "it runs Doom" are when it's run on
| something clearly not designed for it (a printer, etc).
| mc32 wrote:
| Reminds me of the Tinycircuits that have been posted here
| before: https://tinycircuits.com/
| waltbosz wrote:
| Does anyone have experience with Tinycircuits products? My
| 9-year-old daughter wants the TV and arcade for Christmas.
|
| How hackable are they? I'm afraid it's just going to become a
| toy she plays with for a day and gets bored.
|
| ...
|
| Oh, also since this is a Doom post, I'll selfishly mention
| that I always wish these ported-Doom-to-hardward-x projects
| would demo using the Ultimate Simpsons Doom 2 mod that I
| helped publish.
| https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Simpsons_Doom
| Yahivin wrote:
| Ok, now network them.
| periheli0n wrote:
| And upgrade to Duke Nukem.
| aspectmin wrote:
| This!
| rcarmo wrote:
| jjordan wrote:
| A lot of it is dumb luck. HN gets a lot of posts, most which
| see little to no activity. A few early upvotes seem to make all
| the difference in what eventually surfaces and what doesn't.
| Razengan wrote:
| At this point it's easier to just say what doesn't play Doom.
| ok_dad wrote:
| Seeing as how it runs on a pregnancy test [0], I believe this
| is that list:
|
| * ...
|
| [0]: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066 (This
| original was well below the fold on Google, shame on them.)
| detaro wrote:
| ... that's an new display stuffed in the shell of a pregnancy
| test, running the game on an external processor:
| https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448
| yreg wrote:
| This is unreasonably cute.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| barbazoo wrote:
| Because not everyone sees the same posts. So I'm happy this
| came up again.
| huhtenberg wrote:
| I am a simple man. I see a Doom port - I upvote it.
| kennyadam wrote:
| Nice reddit-tier comment - couldn't think of a pun too?
| huhtenberg wrote:
| I always assumed this format was a derivative of Churchil's
| saying ("I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with
| the best"). Looked it up and apparently it has a distinct
| source of its own.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Those who do not study the reddit comment section are Doomed
| to repeat it?
| Quinner wrote:
| Bah, humbug.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| As a fellow Dutchman I hate how it takes literally just two
| seconds to hear that the author is Dutch as well just by the
| accent nearly all of us English speaking Dutch suffer from
| (conversely he could do the same with my pronunciation of
| English).
|
| It's like a national shibboleth as impossible to get rid of as
| herpes.
| periheli0n wrote:
| Don't be so hard on him (and your fellow compatriotes). His
| english is perfectly fine.
|
| Wouldn't it be weirder if he had no perceptible accent
| whatsoever?
|
| I find it quite refreshing to be able to tell where someone is
| from, judging from their accent alone. When I was a kid,
| growing up in a rather rural area, I could tell with an
| accuracy of about 20km which area around my hometown someone I
| just met was from, just from by the fine differences in their
| accent. But in fact very few people like being identified like
| that.
|
| I get it, breach of privacy and all that... but on the other
| hand, is it so bad to know where someone is from, when having a
| conversation with them
|
| The real problem is of course the biases in people's head...
| "dutch people are such and such", and so on. I say we should
| fight the biases, not the fact that one's geographical origin
| can be guessed.
| prmoustache wrote:
| Could be worse, you could be french.
| bobsmooth wrote:
| The only thing more impressive than Doom being run on everything
| is how increasingly tiny the computer you need to do is.
| leeoniya wrote:
| does anyone make Doomagachis?
| lostgame wrote:
| Oh; no, I forgot to feed my demon enough souls, and it died.
| :(
| nine_k wrote:
| Ironically, the original IBM PC was of course completely
| incapable of running Doom. You needed an AT with at least a
| 386, and preferably a 486.
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