Re:Echoplayer: Echo – Open Hardware Music Player
by bondarchuk on Friday April 25, 2025 @04:50PM
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I never realized people would play Doom in rockbox unironically, always assumed it was just for coolness factor/as a demo. Lol.
Playing DOOM, which I hid from my hyper-religious parents, was always a blast. It trashed the battery so I kept it plugged in - it would get very hot. Probably terrible for the device but I was a kid and wanted to slay some demons.
There was a Mandelbrot viewer that was pretty cool. Lots of stuff I'm probably forgetting.
It also functioned as a device for adult images that I would dual boot into. Not the best for my young brain most likely. Still, I have plenty of nostalgia around using computers to solve parental problems. Or creating more because I didn't understand partitioning, boot loaders, or really anything when installing Ubuntu on a family machine. :)