Software developer Nicola Wrachien created a masterpiece by running the 1993 3D shooter Doom on a chip of an Ikea LED lamp. It turns out that Wrachien uses a slightly scaled-down version of the game, but the chip’s processing power is enough to run the shooter at 35 frames per second on a small 160 x 128-pixel screen. This was reported by PC Magazine.
Hungarian got the idea from a message that Doom is also working on an electronic pregnancy test. But in the end, it turned out that this device is powered by an extra OLED panel and plays no more than a stream, where the actual calculations are performed on a computer.
Considering the above, the developer has released the prerequisites that his work must meet. For example, the chip of the Ikea lamp, which can be purchased for only $14.95, can be used. The SoC consists of a Cortex M33 from ARM with 96 + 12 kilobytes of ram. It also approved additional hardware items that turned out to be absolutely necessary but could not be found in the lamp itself. These include a separate circuit board, 8 megabytes of flash memory for the game and operating system, a power connector and connectors for the keyboard and audio output.
Sources: Winfuture, PCMag
Source: Hardware Info
