Doom on a picture key chain
posted Oct 6th 2009 6:02am by Jakob Griffithfiled under: handhelds hacks, home entertainment hacks, linux hacks
Alright, so Doom isn’t actually running on the key chain itself, but rather a BifferBoard: a small 150MHz x86 containing ethernet, serial, and even USB with only one watt of power consumption! The project is to show how easy it is to program the BifferBoard and getting it talking to other hackable items – such as the picture key chain for a display. Doom does appear a bit slow, but [Biff] figures its do to how haphazardly it grabs keyboard input over SSH.








The project makes use of the ST2205 picture frame hacking project I started: http://picframe.spritesserver.nl/wiki/index.php/Main_Page . It’s a shame that the guy who did this hack kept the remood licensing blurb intact, but ripped away my credits (probably by accident, but still.)
Other than that, nice hack! I hadn’t thought about porting games to the picture frame yet. Though it may have been a better idea to actualli incorporate the code to talk to the display into SDL instead of just the Remood-code.