Rez
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Doom runs on Halloween candy now
Halloween is nearly upon us once again, and while that means plenty of spooky fun, you also need to remain vigilant - you never know if your kids might bring home candy laced with the iconic 1993 MS-DOS game Doom.
The folks at Adafruit Industries crafted one such candy bar as part of a very short, very goofy video which shows Doom running on a small screen inside a (seemingly plastic) Milky Way bar. The video ends with the warning "do not eat if it's Turing complete."
Adafruit has not provided any details on how this tiny version of Doom was built, but earlier this year, they demonstrated the game running(opens in new tab) on a miniscule device called the QT Py ESP32 - it's likely the same device is in the candy coating here. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any buttons on the bar, so I'm not sure how you'd actually play the game, but running Doom's title screen demo still counts as running Doom.
Halloween is nearly upon us once again, and while that means plenty of spooky fun, you also need to remain vigilant - you never know if your kids might bring home candy laced with the iconic 1993 MS-DOS game Doom.
The folks at Adafruit Industries crafted one such candy bar as part of a very short, very goofy video which shows Doom running on a small screen inside a (seemingly plastic) Milky Way bar. The video ends with the warning "do not eat if it's Turing complete."
Adafruit has not provided any details on how this tiny version of Doom was built, but earlier this year, they demonstrated the game running(opens in new tab) on a miniscule device called the QT Py ESP32 - it's likely the same device is in the candy coating here. Unfortunately, I'm not seeing any buttons on the bar, so I'm not sure how you'd actually play the game, but running Doom's title screen demo still counts as running Doom.
