Doom Can Now Actually Run on a Pregnancy Test, Thanks to Programming Genius

Back in September I reported on an incredibly talented hardware engineer and software programmer Foone Turing who was in the process of taking the often tongue-in-cheek "simply can it run Doom?" challenge to new heights — past getting it to work on a pregnancy examination of all things. And after much headache in a very detailed and amusing Twitter thread chronicling their process, they finally succeeded in their goal:

endianness fixed, bluetooth controller missing, culling bluetooth controller broken, alternate alternate controller plant, and at present I have DOOM ON A PREGNANCY TEST:https://t.co/TFd37y9mGd

— foone (@Foone) September 7, 2022

I tried zooming in and turning up the in-game gamma a bit, so you can see what's going on slightly better.
(It'south a 128×32 pixel monochrome brandish, it's never gonna be great) pic.twitter.com/dAU7LZ1pkT

— foone (@Foone) September seven, 2022

They program on releasing a basic how-t0 guide of the procedure, and so definitely go on tabs on their social media. You can as well check out the full library of other videos they've gotten running on the in a higher place setup. And if you want to support them, here are links to their Patreon and ko-fi pages.

This is hardly the commencement crazy matter done with Doom. In other Doom running news, YouTuber Equalo set up himself a claiming to run DOOM solely by using the power of potatoes and succeeded. And in a video shared on Instagram, a user named Richard Mallard was able to get xCloud running through his smart fridge to play games, withDOOM Eternal beingness one of the showcases for this marvel of technological feats.

Developer id Software released a new patch last month for Eternal that included a diverseness of different Render Modes which gives the game drastically unlike looks, depending on which you cull to implement. One of these is "Retro Handheld" which resembles the original Game Boy's iconic green color palette.

On the completely reverse cease of the graphical spectrum is Nvidia'due south own recent video demonstration of their RTX 3080, which showed off DOOM Eternal.The video shows comparisons between the RTX 3080 and what was previously considered one of Nvidia's most powerful cards in the RTX 2080 Ti. Running at max settings, DOOM Eternal is able to consistently net betwixt 100-130fps during combat while running at a 4K resolution.

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Cheque out our review of the original DOOM Eternal here, which according to the slice "is a drastic improvement over its predecessor in every way and sees the Doom Slayer reclaiming his throne in the shooter genre."

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