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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by z92 on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:45PM (#9801361)
The original Doom ran on 33MHz processor and 4MB RAM. I can't understand why it might have any problem running on RPi.
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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by morsch on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:49PM (#9801389)
It doesn't. I imagine it's still a fun way to learn ARM assembly and an impressive achievement. Note that apparently they didn't use any operating system and built their own controller from scratch.
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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by girvo on Monday June 29, 2015 @11:43PM (#9802808)
The rPi is ARM, not x86 I'm pretty sure?
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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by duaneb on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:46PM (#9801371)
I played doom on my ipod mini. I'm pretty sure this wasn't to stress the insane hardware of a pi so much as x86 is completely miserable to bare-metal program in.
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