Monday, February 21, 2011

Doom on a calculator

Funny, a programmer has decided to bring Doom, the first name on his calculator. The model chosen is the Nspire by Texas Instruments, a popular model that has succeeded to the family of models 84. Doom, quite famous in his day, is not true in 3D - the enemies are 2D sprites - but porting is quite impressive and has the advantage of operating your files.

wad, which contain data levels. It is therefore possible to distribute the game engine and then associate it with files. wad eg from an original game (or one of its mods). The calculator in question is obviously strong enough, the level of a desktop PC 90 years: 32 MB of RAM (some reserved for the OS), a 90 MHz ARM9 processor and a screen in 320 x 240 - definition used in the original Doom - in 16 shades of gray.

Still remember the Doom engine was offered to the open source community, as much technology from id Software, and that the port is somewhat simpler than work started from scratch.

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