Someone has asked the age-old question, “Can it run Doom?” but this time, with an Apple adapter.
As posed on MacRumors, YouTuber Nyan Satan published a video of Doom running on Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter. Although it isn’t the smoothest-running version of Doom ever made, with some choppiness, it is running reasonably well.
The Digital AV Adapter has Apple’s SoC (System on a Chip) inside and runs a significantly simplified version of iOS. With that in mind, the 1995-based The Ultimate Doom (the version of the game seen running in the video) is the perfect candidate for any game to get running on.
According to the poster, the hardest part of getting Doom running on the system was gaining access to the SoC itself, as Apple has the chip locked down for security purposes. A MacBook is shown in the video, although it looks to be processing the code onto the adapter, using the system’s original intention to get Doom to run.
Doom has run on some Apple products before: the MacBook Pro touch bar, an Apple Watch, and even an iPod. Even outside of Apple products, programmers have gotten the game to run on other weird devices such as a lawnmower, E. coli, a John Deere display, a Nintendo Game & Watch, and a Samsung Smart Fridge.
Source: MacRumors
Image Credit: Nyan Satan
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