American tech blogger Foone Turing decided to launch DOOM and TES V: Skyrim on an e-pregnancy test that costs just $ 5. This device is equipped with an 8-bit Holtek processor with 4 and 8 MHz frequencies. It also has 64 bytes of memory, a mini battery and an LCD display.
It will not work to start DOOM and TES V: Skyrim from the start. Therefore, for now, he launched a video with scenes from these games to show how they would look on this wonderful device. This is possible due to the fact that the electronic test in basic mathematical and script operations is much faster than the original IBM PC.
Despite all the “power”, the processor had to be replaced due to the impossibility of reprogramming the chip. In addition, the blogger replaced the display. Displaying something on the screen requires soaking a chemically treated paper strip.
and it can’t yet run doom. That’s going to be way tricky, even cheating and having a modern desktop computer connected to it… but I CAN play back a doom video on it, which is kinda close?
(Using a different dithering method here so that you can see anything: doom is dark) pic.twitter.com/BhJLYkQlXp– foone (@Foone) September 5, 2020
As a reaction, the electronic test by default displays the analysis result – “Pregnant” or “Not pregnant”. Using the algorithms of the test, the blogger first displayed another test, and then a video with the game scenes of DOOM and TES V: Skyrim.
Header image: Foone
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