[HN Gopher] Doom on a modified rotary phone
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Doom on a modified rotary phone
Author : stankot
Score : 122 points
Date : 2024-09-25 04:29 UTC (18 hours ago)
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| erickhill wrote:
| It's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you
| keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else
| entirely.
| throwup238 wrote:
| The trick is to stop before you rub your joystick raw.
| optimalsolver wrote:
| Relevant SMBC:
|
| https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
| maffydub wrote:
| Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using
| phone calls!
|
| A few years back, I built TeleDoom
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack
| hackathon (http://tadhack.com/).
|
| This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which
| connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your
| button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then
| streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the
| vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on
| Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
|
| I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e.
| rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk
| provider!
|
| This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot
| lisper wrote:
| > I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!
|
| Next year.
| oneshtein wrote:
| You can join army and practice Doom by phone or radio today!
| bbarnett wrote:
| _vibe of 80s /90s TV phone-in games!_
|
| Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in
| Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits,
| and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where
| you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.
|
| As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK
| had such cultural similarities too.
| m4rc3lv wrote:
| I liked the story about the hackathon. Too bad something like
| this does not exist in my country.
| Tepix wrote:
| Go and start one!
| stevage wrote:
| It's cool, but I object to the misleading language. This isn't
| playing Doom _on_ a phone, it 's playing Doom _using_ a phone as
| a controller.
| grujicd wrote:
| Title of original article is "play Doom on rotary phone", not
| "Doom on rotary phone", so it's a problem with a shortened HN
| title.
|
| When describing playing a game in Serbian we use "on a
| controller" instead of "with a controller". It may be the same
| in Lithuanian.
| stevage wrote:
| Sounds like more of a translation issue than a shortening
| issue then.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Anyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?
| jansan wrote:
| Not really electronic devices, but how about facades of high
| rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the
| Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of
| those insane new Chinese skyscrapers?
|
| Edit: I was also thinking about the Favicon, but this has been
| done already: https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Let's remember this comment when this is done. I'm sure
| someone will do it soon, even if it meant just controlling
| the lights in the windows.
| herodoturtle wrote:
| Reminds me of the final scene in Hackers (1995).
|
| "Beat that!"
|
| Pure poetry.
| ivan_gammel wrote:
| Jet fighter helmets
|
| BESM-6 mainframe (if there's any alive still)
|
| Drilling control systems
|
| Medical ultrasound scanners
|
| Screenless, but... a 3D-printed level with remotely controlled
| cockroaches.
|
| (I'm looking forward to "challenge accepted" comments except
| for the last two ones)
| nullhole wrote:
| Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you
| shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a
| telephone handset to run the game.
| _joel wrote:
| Reminds me of a 90's gameshow back here in the UK, Nightmare.
| One player would be blindfolded whilst the other team member
| tried to guide them around a grid avoiding being captured..
| "Left, no, my left, no I mean your left, no!!!"|
|
| Also https://www.voicebot.net/ or https://voiceattack.com/ is
| what you might want, from a quick google. Add an rj11 to 3.5mm
| connection, hey presto ;)
| anthk wrote:
| You can play text adventures over the phone with Asterisk, CMU-
| sphinx and some tweaked up dfrotz.
|
| Also, Frotz has been ported to more devices than Doom.
| Tepix wrote:
| There was a nice multiplayer game like that at the Expo 2000
| with 6 players around a large table display using voice
| commands. There's a picture still at https://www.unit-
| design.de/de/projekte/daimler-chrysler-lab-...
| Dwedit wrote:
| Before anyone tries to bring it up, Doom never ran on a pregnancy
| test. That was a case mod, no original parts were used besides
| the plastic case.
| bbarnett wrote:
| While Doom many not have, I assure you many felt doom when
| waiting for the result.
| rob74 wrote:
| Well, it was still more "on" the pregnancy test than "on" the
| rotary phone - in this case, the phone is just a (really
| _really_ bad) controller, Doom is still running on whatever the
| phone is connected to.
| tempodox wrote:
| I shudder to think of the side effects if the test were
| positive.
| DaoVeles wrote:
| Can we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name.
|
| Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It
| lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the
| 'wrongulator'.
| yapyap wrote:
| Not really "on" the phone right? or did I misunderstand the clip,
| cause it seemed like he was merely controlling it with the phone
| Razengan wrote:
| If you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.
| Tepix wrote:
| Here's Doom running on a 64x40 display (not my hack), has anyone
| gone lower than that?
|
| https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/
| thih9 wrote:
| This one is 32x48, 1 bit and based on gut bacteria:
| https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gu...
| 93po wrote:
| if you count subpixels to achieve color, a monochrome 128x32
| display is a lot less: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-
| kinda-running-on-a-pr... (as other comment pointed out, this is
| just a shell of a pregnancy test being used)
| burglins wrote:
| The part about bluetooth is all too relatable. I'm wondering if
| there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much
| less annoying to set up?
| tempodox wrote:
| > Hello operator? I'd like to report a Cacodemon.
|
| When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress
| has struck!
|
| Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play
| Doom on...
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