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      They can’t. He put extra hardware in it to make it work. But that doesn’t make for a catchy clickbait title, so they left that part out of it.

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        That’s just lame, if I put my computer in my fridge I wouldn’t say that my fridge is then able to run Crysis.

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          If you’re using the screen on the front of your fridge and your fridge’s built-in buttons, if your computer is in the door or walls of the fridge as opposed to just chilling on a shelf like a leftover burrito, if your computer doesn’t have its own distinct power source, and if your fridge continues to cool your food like a fridge… why not?

          No, it’s not running entirely on the fridge’s hardware at that point, but you did basically hack your fridge to be able to play Crysis.

          In this case it does all of the above and also triggers device functionality based off of game events.

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    Ported in the same way that I could port crysis to my childhood pc from 1995 by putting the innards of my current pc in that old case, and using an hdmi to vga, and ps2 to usb adapters.

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      Exactly, these clever innovations are some of the few things we get to hear about in our current hellscape.

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    the creator cracked it open and stuck some extra hardware inside to help the device run Doom.

    Wait what. What hardware? I feel like that doesn’t really count? Like I can run doom on my guitar if I stick a computer in there.

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      Pretty much why “it runs doom” got boring. It turned into “we hooked up a computer to this weird proprietary screen to display Doom” rather than “this weird computer hardware runs Doom”.

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      I have a copy of PS2’s “Rez” with its accessory—the Rez Trance Vibrator. It’s quite fun.

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        I bet it is. Until you accidentally pull the cable a bit too hard.

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          They give you a verrrrrry long cable. But according to the game’s creator, it’s “not a sex thing.”

          It definitely feels like one.

          It comes with a washable slip cover!

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      Didn’t read this article, but the pregnancy test doom was “just” a microcontroller with oled display shoehorned inside pregnancy test case. So, if that counts then you could make a rock or concrete slab to play doom.

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        the creator cracked it open and stuck some extra hardware inside

        Yeah, this isn’t a sex toy running Doom either. Same thing happened here.

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          The original challenge is to get doom running on random devices with their own hardware. If that wasn’t the case I could just duct tape a laptop to a stick and claim that the stick is running doom.

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            That’s some serious gatekeeping lmao, I thought we were past that. Having a high level layer makes it easier to run custom code yes, but gaining access to that layer is the definition of hardware hacking. Not breaking the original functionality (or in this case expanding on it) is still impressive and encapsulates the original spirit of ‘you can run Doom on anything’ perfectly.

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              Personally I didn’t think the pregnancy test one really counted, either, but I’m with you on this one. This isn’t just “I put Doom on a sex toy,” but “I put Doom on a sex toy and used game events to trigger its functionality,” which is a level above.

              Also looking at the pregnancy test one now I might change my mind. They did use a different microcontroller and screen, but the pregnancy test already had a microcontroller inside it; it just wasn’t programmable. If the replacement microcontroller and screen had the same specs as the old one, it’s more than fair to call that a win IMO. At that point, it’s the same hardware, after all.

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              How is pregnancy test running doom if there’s nothing else but the plastic casing remaining of it and the ‘running doom’ part doesn’t have a single part from the original hardware? On this case it’s at least using the original display and buttons (I assume) while keeping the original hardware in place for ‘kill indicator’, but that toy itself isn’t running doom either.

              I dont keep any gates, but if it’s enough that a case remains from the original hardware you can get anything bigger than your fist to run doom by ripping the guts of original out and replacing it with a raspbery pi. And in that case the only ‘hardware hacking’ is the hot glue keeping the thing together.

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                If you replace all the internals it’s not the same, I get your point. But not every Doom-run is like that. These days they run some kind of busybox on any smart device, so technically any smart device could run doom. But the way they do it is still incredibly interesting.

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                  These days they run some kind of busybox on any smart device, so technically any smart device could run doom.

                  That’s true, but I don’t think it’s the same to shove in attiny/arduino/whatever in place of original motherboard/cpu and building your own ‘doom-machine’ with off-the shelf parts, specially if you replace/recreate user interface too. The masturbator on the post link is obviously a different thing, even if it’s using a separate hardware to actually run doom there’s some hacking involved to get the toy to ‘fire’ based on game events, but even then the toy itself doesn’t run doom.

                  The better, but less clickbaity, title would be ‘I hacked my sex toy to respond into game events’ or something like that. And that on itself is a interesting enough topic to go with, regardless if it runs doom or not. And as a side note, I bet there’s people who would pay actual money to get a hold of that kind of gadget. Actually, I’m surprised if there isn’t any on the market already which would tap into force feedback commands from directX or something to provide ‘haptic feedback’ with a toy like this.

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      Well yeah, don’t you know? Pregnancy is “wholesome” while sex is “dirty”, any relationship between the two is purely coincidental…

      /s just in case

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    Not me thinking the extra hardware referred to his penis… disappointed. not at the lack of penis, but because it’s kinda cheaty