Foone🏳️⚧️
Keyboard idea:
It's a regular keyboard, but it has a "Doom" button.
Pressing that button makes the computer play Doom. The important part is that the computer doesn't need to:
1. have Doom on it
2. Connect to the internet
to play Doom. It works by typing in Doom and then playing it, like you were reading it out of a 1980s 8-bit computer magazine.
Whovian NineThreeSixNine
@foone It types out and compiles (GZ)DOOM when you press the button
Foone🏳️⚧️
The tricky part is making it cross platform. I would want it to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux, of course.
CaveDave
@foone just make Doom run on a keyboard at this point
Foone🏳️⚧️
@engravecavedave again? https://x.com/Foone/status/1314730238903943168
Alice Carroll
@foone how hard would it be to make that button reboot the pc, and making it boot from some embedded storage, essentially behaving as a cross-architecture doom os
Foone🏳️⚧️
@caralice that'd be easier.
so less fun.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@drj yeah, I may need to steal some of their ideas
David JONES
@foone the USB plasma orb malware attack paper (it's a plasma orb that you give someone and it infects their computer by pretending to be a keyboard) had a cross platform thingy about this.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@snep interesting idea! I may have to try that
Snep :floofBlep:
@foone How about the keyboard just typing out the frames as ASCII art and rendering the game within the keyboard microcontroller itself? 🤔
It'd be slow, of course, but also only requires some form of large text input field - Notepad, TextEdit, vi, a TTY, etc.
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