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July 18, 2020 7:29 AM

Windows task manager runs Doom. (slyt)
posted by MartinWisse (24 comments total)

That’s bananapancakes
posted by sixswitch at 7:43 AM on July 18, 2020 [4 favorites]

Rip and Tear until CPU Usage is 100%!
posted by mittens at 7:43 AM on July 18, 2020 [4 favorites]

896 CORES
posted by Going To Maine at 8:11 AM on July 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

That's... that's. That's
posted by clawsoon at 8:39 AM on July 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

A semi-technical explanation of why Doom gets ported everywhere

But can it run Doom? A brief history of installing DOOM on everything.

From 2016:

7 weirdest devices that can run Doom

A catalogue of all the devices that can somehow run Doom

Pianos, printers, and other weird things you can play Doom on
posted by blob at 8:58 AM on July 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

This is somehow way weirder than I had expected.
posted by selfnoise at 9:29 AM on July 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

On Nightmare no less
posted by aubilenon at 9:51 AM on July 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

A semi-technical explanation of why Doom gets ported everywhere

It's not just because it's open source and well written. DOOM doesn't require an FPU, and it only needs 4 megs of RAM. Of course it can be ported to everything.
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 10:03 AM on July 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

My understanding is that this is fake, although that's not the same as saying it's impossible.
posted by It's Never Lurgi at 10:20 AM on July 18, 2020 [15 favorites]

As is fitting in 2020, it also appears to have been ported to a cake. Many many times.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 10:22 AM on July 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Clearly that's a cocoademon.
posted by benzenedream at 1:00 PM on July 18, 2020 [6 favorites]

That's... that's. That's

An obnoxious waste of time and energy, in every sense.

Meh, I say. MEH.
posted by snuffleupagus at 1:49 PM on July 18, 2020

Clearly that's a cocoademon.

Cakeodemon
posted by Going To Maine at 2:10 PM on July 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Clearly that's a cocoademon.

Cakeodemon

Oh geezus... Cakeodaemon
posted by JoeXIII007 at 2:50 PM on July 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

Sadly, this is art, not something someone actually did. But hopefully it'll inspire someone to get it to work for real.
posted by dmd at 3:36 PM on July 18, 2020 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: sadly, this is art
posted by Earthtopus at 5:03 PM on July 18, 2020 [8 favorites]

ok doomer
posted by lalochezia at 8:15 PM on July 18, 2020 [4 favorites]

There's a history of this, like when our university got a Connection Machine and some students programmed it to play Tetris on das Blinkenlights.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:33 PM on July 18, 2020

At 5:22 in the video there is a Kodak digital camera running doom. I had that camera and you bet your ass I got it running.

I mean it sucked but still.
posted by cirhosis at 11:03 PM on July 18, 2020 [2 favorites]

People passing cool stuff off as something it is not is such a tiresome trope. This makes me think of Walk Off The Earth's cover of Somebody I Used To Know. It's a great cover! But it absolutely was not recorded in one take with everyone playing the same guitar. That conceit spoiled it for me, just as the ficticious conceit for this saps the otherwise impressive feat of its wow value.

And that concludes my grumpy commentary for the day.
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:28 AM on July 19, 2020

grumpybear69: It's a great cover! But it absolutely was not recorded in one take with everyone playing the same guitar.

If you knew that they do it live, would that change your mind? (Many other live recordings available - I just picked the first one that came up.)
posted by clawsoon at 8:58 AM on July 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

It's fake.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 9:20 AM on July 19, 2020

The weirdest thing I've personally run Doom on is a Sansa Clip+ MP3 player with rockbox installed.

it was super weird to see it on that tiny bi-color screen, but the joypad thing the Clip + uses was actually oddly functional for play.
posted by loquacious at 10:00 AM on July 19, 2020 [2 favorites]

I kind of prefer it a conceptual art, it avoids being the CPU equivalent of rolling coal.
posted by snuffleupagus at 2:51 PM on July 21, 2020