Benjamin Franklin as soon as mentioned that “nothing is definite besides dying and taxes.” Had he been alive in the present day, he virtually definitely would have mentioned, “oh, and the opposite certainty is individuals will maintain modding Doom till the tip of time.” Fairly the ahead thinker. Anyway, right here’s id Software program’s iconic FPS working on a toothbrush.

Just some days in the past, Twitter consumer atc1441 (thanks, Rock Paper Shotgun) uploaded a short clip exhibiting Doom working on a wise toothbrush. On the tiny display screen of the Planck Mini, you possibly can nearly make the sport out. The modder even goes so far as exhibiting it being managed by a mouse.

In a second tweet, we see they finally managed to get it to run full-screen reasonably than in a small window. Now we are able to see the factor a lot clearer.

Combat demons…and tooth decay

In accordance with atc1441 – who says their greatest ardour is to “customized firmware on as many gadgets as potential” (no approach) – the toothbrush itself, “accommodates an ESP32-C3 with 4MB Flash.”

Utilizing some further downloads and a “miniwad” of Doom, they have been capable of compress the sport all the way down to the 4MB required for the flash. Hey presto: Doom on a toothbrush!

I don’t assume I’ll ever get tired of the methods individuals can modify id’s influential shooter, both tinkering with the unique or getting it to run on all method of gadgets. Simply take a look: Doom on a robotic lawnmower, in an audio spectrogram, on a pair of earrings!

Someday we’re going to succeed in the singularity and somebody will boast how they obtained Doom to run inside Doom. Oh, wait.