DOOM Ported To A $30 Clamp Meter

DOOM. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew, it’s the sport that runs on something and all the pieces. Now, the traditional shooter is working on a slightly unlikely goal—an inexpensive clamp meter of very restricted assets, thanks to the work of [Artur Bieniek].

The clamp meter in query is the FNIRSI DMC-100, which will be had for the low worth of simply $30 or so if you realize the place to look. It’s a far cry from the various hundreds of {dollars} you’d pay for a heavy previous 486-based machine again in 1993. [Artur] obtained the doomgeneric engine working on the Artery AT32F415 chip that runs the clamp meter.

The chip is fairly succesful, with its 150 MHz clock velocity, although the 32 KB of RAM posed slightly a giant limitation to the undertaking. It could also be one of many lowest RAM DOOM ports on the market. Even with this restrict, [Artur] was in a position to get Episode 1 of Freedoom: Phase 1 loaded on to the factor, together with E1M1 to E1M9 together with the title display screen, intermissions, the finale, the menu, and 4 save slots. Color graphics are displayed on the meter’s 320 x 240 display screen, and there are even sound results on the built-in buzzer. Controls are mapped to the slightly curious alternative of a DJI RC-N1 drone controller.

We’ve seen DOOM working on all the pieces from desk phones to completely custom CPUs. These days it’s important to strive fairly arduous to search out one thing it hasn’t already been ported to.