Forget playing Doom in a PDF, how about playing it on a video cable!

[thewayne]

Sadly lacking in details, this developer, "Nyan Satan" (his YouTube channel name) convinced an Apple $50 Lightning to HDMI adapter cable to run Doom! But at least he made a video demo of it running.

The adaptation of the Lightning protocol to the HDMI protocol requires more than a bit of work. The cable contains a microprocessor with a very scaled-down version of Apple's iPhone operating system, iOS. And Nyan got into the CPU and convinced it to dance to his tune!

Now, here's the interesting bit: that cable adapter's CPU has more processing power than most of the PC's that we were running back in the '90s when Doom released!

Watch on YouTube

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1314221/developer-runs-doom-on-50-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter

Comments

[darkoshi]

Neat. I don't remember if I ever tried Doom, but I did download midi's of the music way back (still have them!); and hearing that in the video reminded me of them just now.

[thewayne]

We played Doom and Quake, also some of the original Unreal before it become the Unreal Tournament rage.  And the Star Wars franchises when they were more first-person shooters.  Very fond memories of a Lucas Arts game whose name eludes me, it was a Western shooter that you actually had to use an action key to reload each round into your weapon!  That one was a lot of fun, especially in the death match modes.

[silveradept]

That's certainly an accomplishment to get it running DOOM.

...however, if there is indeed a scaled-down OS on that chip, that makes me not want to do much with those kinds of things, because it feels like that's an excellent way of distributing malware or worse in those cables.