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Doom on a modified rotary phone

126 points by stankot

by maffydub

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Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!
A few years back, I built TeleDoom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack hackathon (http://tadhack.com/).
This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot

by Dwedit

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Before anyone tries to bring it up, Doom never ran on a pregnancy test. That was a case mod, no original parts were used besides the plastic case.

by Brajeshwar

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Anyone know what electronic devices are left for Doom to conquer?

by Tepix

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Here's Doom running on a 64x40 display (not my hack), has anyone gone lower than that?
https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/

by tempodox

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> Hello operator? I'd like to report a Cacodemon.
When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck!
Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…

by 1970-01-01

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Doom With a Modified Rotary Phone. Pedantic, but the title has the wrong preposition for what was actually accomplished.

by DaoVeles

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Can we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name.
Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.

by burglins

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The part about bluetooth is all too relatable. I'm wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?

by erickhill

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It's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else entirely.

by m4rc3lv

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I liked the story about the hackathon. Too bad something like this does not exist in my country.

by nullhole

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Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.

by Razengan

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If you dream about Doom then Doom is running on you.

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by yapyap

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Not really “on” the phone right? or did I misunderstand the clip, cause it seemed like he was merely controlling it with the phone

by stevage

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It's cool, but I object to the misleading language. This isn't playing Doom on a phone, it's playing Doom using a phone as a controller.

by optimalsolver

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Relevant SMBC:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-02-17

by adityaathalyo

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