Doom: Now Playable On A TI-Nspire Calculator

Doom: Now Playable On A TI-Nspire Calculator

Monday, February 21, 2011 - by Ray Willington
Is it really possible to play Doom...on a calculator? You may think that one would have just as good a chance at making that happen as ever seeing Duke Nukem Forever, but in the case of the former, it's a reality. Doom has found its way onto a Texas Instruments calculator, and the entire geek world is in a tizzy about it. The actual build is called nDoom, which is a modified version of the original that's designed to work on less powerful machines. The TI-Nspire is the calculator of choice, and while you may not expect such a device to have enough graphical power to truly pull this off, this whole thing is definitely a case of "you've got to see it to believe it." And that's why there's a video below. Good luck trying to replicate it, and remember, no Doom in class! Okay, maybe a little...

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By coolice on Feb 21, 2011

wow... thats crazy... dot-matrix style doom.

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By mstum on Feb 21, 2011

Uhm... You may want to do another fact check on the likelihood of a Duke Nukem Forever release :-)

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By Der Meister on Feb 21, 2011

^I think it was suppose to be a joke.... lol

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By Inspector on Feb 21, 2011

WOW, neat. I should get my self a nspire, lets see what teachers have to say about that in class xD

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By Humiliative on Feb 21, 2011

Yes, but can it run Crysis?

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By SammyHayabuza on Feb 21, 2011

This is pretty cool...but I think the TI-Nspire is more than capable of playing the 17 year old title.

Doom System requirements: 80386 class CPU, 4 MB of RAM

The TI-NS2006A controller in the TI-Nspire is running at 90mhz, plenty of horse power!!

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By grifter81 on Feb 22, 2011

I'm pretty sure this has been around for a very long time. When I was in highschool we were playing Doom on our Ti-82 graphing calculators. It wasn't great but it worked.

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By ALinebrink on Feb 22, 2011

Yeah... Old news. I was playing Doom 10 years ago on my TI-92 Plus.

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By Schmich on Feb 22, 2011

Ti calculators are some old ass deliberatly crippled computers. Quite sad actually. Impressed at what the guys did to Doom, not what the calculator is capable of.

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By KingKannibal on Mar 30, 2011

it looks hella impressive, but it would be even more impressive it would at least make beeps!

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