This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.
As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.
Well, it was still more "on" the pregnancy test than "on" the rotary phone - in this case, the phone is just a (really really bad) controller, Doom is still running on whatever the phone is connected to.
Not really electronic devices, but how about facades of high rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of those insane new Chinese skyscrapers?
The part about bluetooth is all too relatable.
I'm wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?
Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.
Reminds me of a 90's gameshow back here in the UK, Nightmare. One player would be blindfolded whilst the other team member tried to guide them around a grid avoiding being captured.. "Left, no, my left, no I mean your left, no!!!"|
Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!
A few years back, I built TeleDoom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack hackathon (http://tadhack.com/).
This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot
> I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!
Next year.
You can join army and practice Doom by phone or radio today!
vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games!
Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.
As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.
Before anyone tries to bring it up, Doom never ran on a pregnancy test. That was a case mod, no original parts were used besides the plastic case.
Well, it was still more "on" the pregnancy test than "on" the rotary phone - in this case, the phone is just a (really really bad) controller, Doom is still running on whatever the phone is connected to.
I shudder to think of the side effects if the test were positive.
While Doom many not have, I assure you many felt doom when waiting for the result.
Anyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?
Jet fighter helmets
BESM-6 mainframe (if there’s any alive still)
Drilling control systems
Medical ultrasound scanners
Screenless, but… a 3D-printed level with remotely controlled cockroaches.
(I’m looking forward to “challenge accepted” comments except for the last two ones)
Not really electronic devices, but how about facades of high rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of those insane new Chinese skyscrapers?
Edit: I was also thinking about the Favicon, but this has been done already: https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
Let's remember this comment when this is done. I'm sure someone will do it soon, even if it meant just controlling the lights in the windows.
Reminds me of the final scene in Hackers (1995).
“Beat that!”
Pure poetry.
Here's Doom running on a 64x40 display (not my hack), has anyone gone lower than that?
https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/
This one is 32x48, 1 bit and based on gut bacteria: https://www.engadget.com/heres-a-video-of-doom-running-on-gu...
The screenshot obviously doesn't show a 1bit image, in the video you can see one at 5:10 bit it's not dithered well so it looks pretty awful.
if you count subpixels to achieve color, a monochrome 128x32 display is a lot less: https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/09/doom-kinda-running-on-a-pr... (as other comment pointed out, this is just a shell of a pregnancy test being used)
> Hello operator? I'd like to report a Cacodemon.
When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck!
Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…
Doom With a Modified Rotary Phone. Pedantic, but the title has the wrong preposition for what was actually accomplished.
Can we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name.
Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.
The part about bluetooth is all too relatable. I'm wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?
It's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else entirely.
The trick is to stop before you rub your joystick raw.
I liked the story about the hackathon. Too bad something like this does not exist in my country.
Go and start one!
Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.
Reminds me of a 90's gameshow back here in the UK, Nightmare. One player would be blindfolded whilst the other team member tried to guide them around a grid avoiding being captured.. "Left, no, my left, no I mean your left, no!!!"|
Also https://www.voicebot.net/ or https://voiceattack.com/ is what you might want, from a quick google. Add an rj11 to 3.5mm connection, hey presto ;)
There was a nice multiplayer game like that at the Expo 2000 with 6 players around a large table display using voice commands. There's a picture still at https://www.unit-design.de/de/projekte/daimler-chrysler-lab-...
You can play text adventures over the phone with Asterisk, CMU-sphinx and some tweaked up dfrotz.
Also, Frotz has been ported to more devices than Doom.
If you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.
Not really “on” the phone right? or did I misunderstand the clip, cause it seemed like he was merely controlling it with the phone
It's cool, but I object to the misleading language. This isn't playing Doom on a phone, it's playing Doom using a phone as a controller.
Title of original article is "play Doom on rotary phone", not "Doom on rotary phone", so it's a problem with a shortened HN title.
When describing playing a game in Serbian we use "on a controller" instead of "with a controller". It may be the same in Lithuanian.
Sounds like more of a translation issue than a shortening issue then.
Relevant SMBC:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17
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Won't oh someone think of the enterprise!