Comment on 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year agoThat is because most things can’t run doom without modification. I’m fine with adding stuff but displays and inputs need to be on the hardware and the thing must look like its untampered with. For me it’s just a funny magic trick so I’m not that bothered if it’s faked
Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I feel almost entirely the opposite about this. I feel like adding a display or inputs is fine, but if you want to say you have Doom running on a toaster then it damn well better be running on a chip that’s actually in the toaster! If you just stuff a Pi in a toaster then it’s not really the toaster running Doom at all, it’s a Raspberry Pi in a toaster suit. I feel like “can it run Doom” is interesting when it shows that common devices have more powerful chips in them than you realize and that somebody hacked it to run arbitrary code. It’s sort of an interesting metric to show how far we’ve come with computers, and how optimized Doom can be… I personally don’t find it that interesting if you’re just shoving a single board computer into a weird form factor, and it always just feels like clickbait to me.