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thewayneSadly 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!
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1314221/developer-runs-doom-on-50-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter
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!
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1314221/developer-runs-doom-on-50-apple-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter
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Date: 2025-02-08 09:50 pm (UTC)...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.