Launching Doom on devices and appliances not actually designed to launch Doom is kind of an institution in the hobby programmer space, but this one bamboozles even our most extravagant expectations. Get it? Expectations. You know, like “we’re expecting” but instead of babies, it’s cacodemons, although I dunno if there’s much difference. My mom thinks I’m funny, okay.
Twitter user Foone managed to get id Software’s 2003 original game onto a digital pregnancy test with a monochrome 128 x 32 display – which isn’t super visually impressive, maybe, but definitely the result I’d choose over a positive. It’s also hard to make out what’s going on in the chaotic mess of pixels, but that feels metaphorical.
Yesterday I had a lot of retweets and reddit posts and such for playing Doom on a pregnancy test.
But as I explained then, it wasn’t really PLAYING on a pregnancy test, it was just a video being played back, not an interactive game.Well, now it is. It’s Pregnancy Test Doom! pic.twitter.com/Nrjyq07EVv
— foone (@Foone) September 7, 2020
But… how? In a subsequent series of tweets, Foone explains that he replaced the pregnancy test’s CPU and LCD, so the game is launching via an external microcontroller chip. It’s technically cheating, I suppose, but my weekend projects included gorging on junk and snoozing on the couch so I don’t get a vote, anyway.
Via Mashable.