Canofbacon Posted October 5, 2013 Has anyone tried this? If you have a TI-83/84 Plus Calculator you can put games on them. People have attempted to put Doom on them, and it looks pretty cool. I would try it but I don't have enough room on my calculator. Video with download link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuupoxmeQ6U Other Doom Games: TI DooM v1.3 DOOM Doom: Epoch Chron Oh yeah and here's Wolfenstein 3D: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/214/21441.html And here's a tutorial on how to put games on your Calculator 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 5, 2013 It has been done with much better results. Those ones look like Maze Wars or something like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted October 5, 2013 This reminds me--I swear there used to be this site called something like "Will it run Doom?" that archived a bunch of different systems and machines that were hacked or configured to run Doom in some way. I can't seem to find it anymore, but I don't think it was that old. Anyone recall this? 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 5, 2013 Nomad said:This reminds me--I swear there used to be this site called something like "Will it run Doom?" that archived a bunch of different systems and machines that were hacked or configured to run Doom in some way. The closest a google search could find was our very own What CAN'T run Doom? thread. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 5, 2013 Maes said:The closest a google search could find was our very own What CAN'T run Doom? thread. Curiously enough, in that thread you posted the exact same video that appears in the OP. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 5, 2013 Zed said:Curiously enough, in that thread you posted the exact same video that appears in the OP. No wonder, since that TI-83/84 "Doom" thing dates back to the mid 90s -predating the Doom source code release, and of course the very first videos you'll find of it will also be the oldest one around -2008, "old" by Youtube standards. 0 Share this post Link to post
Waffenak Posted October 5, 2013 nice, highend calculators put to good use 0 Share this post Link to post
Canofbacon Posted October 5, 2013 Anyone know a way to play Doom 2 on an iPhone? I have jailbreak. I know you can download Doom from the app store but what about Doom 2? 0 Share this post Link to post
Xaser Posted October 5, 2013 Nomad said:This reminds me--I swear there used to be this site called something like "Will it run Doom?" that archived a bunch of different systems and machines that were hacked or configured to run Doom in some way. I can't seem to find it anymore, but I don't think it was that old. Anyone recall this? Probably thinking of Itplaysdoom.com, which sadly hasn't been up since March 2007, it seems. Here's the latest wayback link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070320131602/http://www.itplaysdoom.com/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted October 5, 2013 Ah ha, that's the one! Thanks Xaser! Too bad it's defunct, but at least my memory was true! 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 5, 2013 Xaser said:Probably thinking of Itplaysdoom.com, which sadly hasn't been up since March 2007, it seems. Here's the latest wayback link: http://web.archive.org/web/20070320131602/http://www.itplaysdoom.com/ Interesting, but some of the information on it is now outdated -if not actually wrong and blown out of proportion e.g. DOOMCOTT was never functional to the degree suggested by that screenshot -it was just a Java applet displaying the titlepic and a screen wipe. Also, rather than Calculator Doom, nowadays we could also have a Doom Calculator ;-) 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 8, 2013 Maes said:Also, rather than Calculator Doom, nowadays we could also have a Doom Calculator ;-) OK, I read the damned thread like ten times, but I'm not a programmer and I barely understand anything (and what I understood is probably wrong). The numerous technical terms didn't help. To make matters worse, the download links doesn't work. So, a couple of questions. Can you explain me in simple terms what's the general idea? How did the final attempt (this is, the links in the final post) resulted? I know this sounds extremely n00b, but I honestly don't understand. Thanks in advance, and good day. 0 Share this post Link to post
GreyGhost Posted October 8, 2013 Zed said:To make matters worse, the download links doesn't work. I can at least help you out with the calculator wad, which was sitting on my hard drive. Zom-B might re-upload the others if asked nicely. The wad's using voodoo dolls to simulate simple logic devices, which can be combined to implement more complex functions. In this case it's a simple binary calculator. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted October 8, 2013 Zed said:Can you explain me in simple terms what's the general idea? The TL; DR version is this: someone used Boom's (not Doom's) mapping features to emulate the very basic functions of an electronic calculator, with considerable effort, too. If a calculator was a car, what he achieved can be compared to emulating a single nut and bolt or the spark from the spark plugs, so to speak. It's mostly a proof-of-concept, which is unlikely to have any practical application: CONJECTURE: you can emulate the functioning a complete, functional computer (electronic calculator) just by using Boom's game logic with a properly created map. PROOF: with enough mapping effort, you can indeed re-create the functionality of a few very elementary components of a true electronic calculator using just Boom's mapping features. Once this is done, it's simply a matter of incrementally emulating more components until you get to the point of emulating an entire calculator. Hence, a Boom Calculator, Q.E.D. 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 8, 2013 Thanks Grey & Maes. I somehow understood the calculator part, but at some point they began talking about Pong and Doom inside Doom and a programmable computer, and there's where I got lost. Thanks again. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted October 10, 2013 Maes said:Also, rather than Calculator Doom, nowadays we could also have a Doom Calculator ;-) I completely missed this thread. Awesome! One of my colleagues actually has a Digi-Comp II, and I was thinking it would be neat to make a Doom level recreation of one. Looks like I don't need to now :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Zed Posted October 10, 2013 @fraggle: It seems like you've done it, too. A quick search on idgames came up with this and THIS. I don't know how that ones compares to the other one, but they are cool enough, I think. EDIT: missing word. 0 Share this post Link to post
Doominator2 Posted November 10, 2013 Ha Ha you could play Doom in class with out getting caught! 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 11, 2013 Doominator2 said:Ha Ha you could play Doom in class with out getting caught! Wrong on both accounts :-) What you'd be playing wouldn't be Doom except in the loosest sense possible, and getting caught would always be a possibility. IMO, not worth the effort. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stupid Bunny Posted November 11, 2013 Zed said:It has been done with much better results. Those ones look like Maze Wars or something like that. I'd never seen this port before; definitely far more impressive. I'm not sure in a practical sense what the difference between the Doom and Wolf3D ports in the OP would be. 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 11, 2013 StupidBunny said:I'd never seen this port before; definitely far more impressive. It must have something to do with it having been developed for a calculator that's, conservatively speaking, a few thousand times more powerful than the TI-83. Actually, that more modern calculator is more powerful even than the computers that most of us veteran Doomers first played Doom on. 0 Share this post Link to post
codeslicer Posted November 11, 2013 Doominator2 said:Ha Ha you could play Doom in class with out getting caught! you could also get a mobile online download 0 Share this post Link to post
Maes Posted November 11, 2013 codeslicer said:you could also get a mobile online download In 2002? Most cell phones weren't even Java enabled, at the time. You had to make do with the built-in games, if any. Nokia Snake galore ;-) 0 Share this post Link to post
codeslicer Posted November 11, 2013 Maes said:In 2002? Most cell phones weren't even Java enabled, at the time. You had to make do with the built-in games, if any. Nokia Snake galore ;-) i hear that! :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Magnetick Posted November 18, 2013 Canofbacon said:Anyone know a way to play Doom 2 on an iPhone? I have jailbreak. I know you can download Doom from the app store but what about Doom 2? I might be a bit late, but I did a write-up on using Doom's iPhone port to run Doom 2 on the Doom subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/1dtwoa/i_was_tinkering_around_with_the_doom_iphone_ports/ 0 Share this post Link to post