It will run doom before boxing day.
Am I the only one super unimpressed by most “it can run doom” things? It’s either some beefy arm CPU or a total hack where it isn’t really running doom and they shoved a raspberry pi in it or something.
That is because most things can’t run doom without modification. I’m fine with adding stuff but displays and inputs need to be on the hardware and the thing must look like its untampered with. For me it’s just a funny magic trick so I’m not that bothered if it’s faked
I feel almost entirely the opposite about this. I feel like adding a display or inputs is fine, but if you want to say you have Doom running on a toaster then it damn well better be running on a chip that’s actually in the toaster! If you just stuff a Pi in a toaster then it’s not really the toaster running Doom at all, it’s a Raspberry Pi in a toaster suit. I feel like “can it run Doom” is interesting when it shows that common devices have more powerful chips in them than you realize and that somebody hacked it to run arbitrary code. It’s sort of an interesting metric to show how far we’ve come with computers, and how optimized Doom can be… I personally don’t find it that interesting if you’re just shoving a single board computer into a weird form factor, and it always just feels like clickbait to me.
I’m glad we all had this thought together. “Can we make this run doom…?” It’s rare that the answer is truly no, but this is probably a case.
With scalpers being especially prevelant in the tech scene (hello pi), being sold out just doesn’t have the same ring to it anymore you know?
Eh, for the company making them it still has that same old Ca-ching sound
Just the one time though.
Is this what they use to power those cheap android tablets you get from wish?
Can’t wait for the Skyrim release
Why do these articles always go on about stuff being sold out like it means something? Even if it’s true, that almost certainly means they’ve simply been bought up by resellers.
I recently needed a plumbing part. Obviously no one’s getting excited about plumbing parts. That was also ‘sold out’ on the manufacturers website.
In reality there are a thousand resellers selling the thing. Manufacturer doesn’t need to have large warehouse or deal with a large number of customers. Resellers get to make a profit by selling for more than the large order unit price they paid. Customers like me get to buy the product at less than the original small order price the manufacturer was asking.
Sorry. That was me. I can’t get enough of ‘plumbing part’, and am bathed in as I type this. Hahaha good point.
This seems like a great computer to use in schools to teach how a computer works
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Oh man, I just discovered this guy recently. I’m way into his bendix project. I really hope he gets the thing running and shows us what he can do with it.
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