upvote

points

by proxysna23 hours ago |
comments
upvoteby egypturnash14 hours ago|
next
[-]
From the article:

Only 40,960 words of memory. That’s only 90kb total memory to split between our code and the memory it needs at runtime.

Looking at a copy of Doom on the Internet Archive (https://ia800404.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/15...), DOOM.EXE is about 709k, and DOOM.WAD is about 11159k.

I think that's a pretty solid no.

Also it's a 250khz CPU. Not megahertz. Kilohertz. It's slower than the 1MHZ 8-bit home computers like the Apple ][ or c64.

"Running" Doom might be possible with some insane hack that offloads storage and/or processing to more modern hardware crammed into the UNIVAC case but given that this is one of two UNIVACs in the entire world, and the only one that actually runs, I don't think the museum is gonna let anyone cram a Raspberry Pi up in there.

reply
upvoteby zimpenfish22 hours ago|
prev|
next
[-]
> a bit of a bait

"a bit" is doing a lot of work there. It was absolute nonsense. They were no closer to running a Minecraft server than I am to running UKGOV.

reply
upvoteby voidUpdate22 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
They hosted a program that allowed minecraft clients to connect... I'd class that as a minecraft server, even if it wasn't a very good one
reply
upvoteby zimpenfish19 hours ago|
parent|
next
[-]
> They hosted a program that allowed minecraft clients to connect...

Connect in the sense of receiving a login packet and saying "yes". That's it. Steps 1, 2, 3, 9, 10 of [0] (they didn't mention encryption or compression, I'm assuming they didn't implement it.)

They didn't mention anything about any of the steps past 10 - again, assuming they didn't implement them.

It's a trivial thing they've implemented - good work, sure, but a Minecraft server? Absolutely not.

[0] https://minecraft.wiki/w/Java_Edition_protocol/FAQ#What's_th...?

reply
upvoteby creaturemachine19 hours ago|
parent|
[-]
Not enough dedotated wam for all that.
reply
upvoteby proxysna22 hours ago|
parent|
prev|
[-]
Yeah, my thought exactly, execution lacked, but i do admire the attempt.
reply
upvoteby voidUpdate22 hours ago|
prev|
next
[-]
It could probably run the code for doom, once recompiled for the risc-v emulator, but given that the only output is a paper teletype, displaying it would be a problem
reply
upvoteby toast021 hours ago|
parent|
next
[-]
> but given that the only output is a paper teletype, displaying it would be a problem

You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. A cacodaemon floats by, hissing.

reply
upvoteby kmoser15 hours ago|
parent|
prev|
next
[-]
I wonder which would be faster: computing a frame, or printing it? If you could print one frame at a time, you could make a flip-book animation.
reply
upvoteby Cthulhu_22 hours ago|
parent|
prev|
[-]
And given the NES emulator example, take half an hour per frame.
reply
upvoteby jandrese18 hours ago|
prev|
next
[-]
Feels kind of like when Usagi Eletric got "Doom" running on a vacuum tube computer with a teletype interface without support for even ASCII, but it was just an imitation of the background music.

Anything for the thumbnail.

reply
upvoteby anthk4 hours ago|
prev|
[-]
Not Doom, but a ZMachine interpreter might run with:

- Zork I-III

- Calypso

- Tristam Island

- All the Z3 machine games at IF archive

- The rest of Infocom propietary games

https://www.ifwiki.org/List_of_Z-machine_interpreters

Also: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=lkr2jf03np19ieix

Now, if the game was libre software it could be improved and ported to Puny Inform (a 'lite' version of Inform6 tuned for smaller machines) creating a really small Z3 file being able to play it from the PDP10 and 8 bit microcomputers to anything from today. From smartphones to PDA's to GNU/Linux with Frotz to Winfrotz and Lectrote and Fabularium for Android/Mac and iOS.

So, 'does it run Doom'? Man, you can play Zork in a pen with writting detection. How cool is that?

reply