But can it play DOOM? an old wired article about devices becoming game machines

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/start.html?pg=5

Short and concise. Anyone else amazed how tech has progressed?

Interesting read. How we used to classify things differently.

 

Where's the 32X, Saturn, SNES, Jaguar versions (for starters)?

 

I remember when i still had a 386 DX40 and people were drooling over Doom 2 running on a 486 DX266. :lol: Damn, i feel old.

Back on topic, it's amazing how Doom is always ported to a new device. Maybe it's fan tribute or maybe because the source code has been avaiable for such a long time. In the end, we have to admire how popular Doom still is. And it all started on shareware and BBS days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)#Legacy

 

Indeed, it was the benchmark for gaming on a "thing".

Can said "thing" play Doom ? Well alrighty then :thumbsup:

 

Also missing the 3DO, N64 for commercial releases, and non-commercially practically every other non-Windows home computer/operating system configuration post 1994 - Amiga, Atari, OS/2, BeOS, Solaris... to say nothing of all the various portable hardware/OS out there.

I do remember reading about Doom being hacked onto some ancient, chunky digital camera, guess that would've been about ten years ago. That was quite impressive.

 

Nice reads, both.

 

I recall the ti-86 calculators. The rich kids in school had them and you could load software on them. There was no USB just serial cables.

Someone told me it was possible but I never saw it in person.

 

Alchy, here is the Kodak digital camera Doom port:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001015205042/http://digita.mame.net/

 

That's the one. I'd forgotten there were MAME and MESS ports too.

 

What a shitty artical. As others have said, it's mising over half of the doom ports out there. The SNES version is mighty impressive for it's time and the system it's running on.

Yakumo

 

It was even ported to the 1st Gen iPod Nano, surprisingly playable with the click wheel.

 

doom is for games what linux is to computers.

 

I have to disagree about the SNES version, yesterday I replayed some of it, and the slowdowns are terrible, It makes the game frustrating and hard to play. I prefer the 32X version, that one had less levels and awful music, but it worked fast.

 

I found it amazing how bad that 32x version was. It baffles the mind how the snes version could look and sound better.

 

I think you forgot the Linux port, which was actually really a port if I recall correctly. Since Doom was made on Linux, if my memory serves me well. Since I remember a story about Doom was not made in Dos, but only made to Dos or something along those lines.

 

DooM was developed on NeXT workstations, running NeXTSTEP.

 

I was listing things the original article had missed.

The main problem with the SNES port is that you can't strafe and turn at the same time, which is a core gameplay mechanic if you want to play the game properly. The framerate is shit, though, agreed.

 

doom on snes looked horrible compared to 32x!

 

Doom was my second game on PC back in the days...
On a 486 DX2 66/100 with TURBO button .
First PC Game was M&M5 Darkside of Xeen... Best times... But i love DSA2 OH:...
Later i played the SNES Version but no real fealing of DOOM.
Comes back with the PSX Version and Final DOOM...

 

That it did, but the SNES versions sound was top notch while 32X lacked...

Wasn't the 32X version also not the full game? Either way, Doom on SNES looks awful.