Classic Doom launched on the TI-Nspire calculator



    Of course, the capabilities of this calculator are somewhat different from the usual functions of conventional calculators, but the news is still interesting. Not every day, let old games port to such devices. By the way, not so long ago there was news that a hacker had found a way to hack PS3 using a programmable calculator, but now another craftsman ported Doom. By the way, the beta version of nDoom is ported, this is a revised version of the original game. Video to be continued.

    As you can see, the game is going quite smoothly, without any jerks and problems - you can obviously play. The video is not very clean, but you can figure out what is happening on the display. The game, by the way, “crashes” when enemies appear, but the author of the development promises to solve this problem soon. It would be interesting to know how much time this geek spent porting the game to a calculator? Obviously over the weekend, such things are not done.



    By the way, the device itself is one of the models of the new line of graphical calculators manufactured by Texas Instruments. The calculator has a USB-connector designed for data exchange with a personal computer. In addition, there is a flash memory capacity of 27.8 megabytes. The calculator has a fairly high resolution and can even provide a separate window for each task.

    Here are the characteristics of the calculator:

    - Display size: 240 x 320 pixels (diagonal of 3.5 inches) - twice the size of the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus models
    - Screen resolution: ~ 115 DPI; 16 shades of gray - five times higher than the resolution of the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus models
    - Size: 19.8 cm x 10 cm x 2.8 cm
    - Weight: 290 g
    - 4 AAA batteries
    - Memory: 20 MB flash memory / 16 MB RAM
    - USB port for connecting to a computer, for exchanging information with other TI-Nspire handheld computers and much more.

    Via engadget

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