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There's gotta be a Moore's law corollary for "Doom ported to [blank]" milestones. I wonder where this all ends? Doom ported to a mechanical pencil! Doom ported to a clipper card! To a lightbulb??
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I remember playing Doom on a single-core 25MHz 486 laptop. It was, at the time, an amazing machine, hundreds of times more powerful than the flight computer that ran the Apollo space capsule, and now it is outclassed by an earbud.
Can we finally end this Apollo computer comparison forever? It was a real time computer NOT designed for speed but real time operations.1 Why don't you compare it to let's say pdp11, vax780/11 or Cray 1 supercomputer? NASA used a lot of supercomputers here on earth pior to mission start.
Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
> Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware The PineBuds are designed and sold as an open firmware platform to allow software experimentation, so there’s nothing bad nor any economic failures going on here. Having a powerful general purpose microcontroller to experiment with is a design goal of the product. That said, ANC Bluetooth earbuds are not menial products. Doing…
Neat, any recommended reading on the topic?
Adding high quality binaural audio to Doom would make this even more viable. Earbuds have accelerometers which could also be incorporated to add additional queues.
List of Doom ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports
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> The materials that go into a chip are nothing. They really aren't. Every material that goes into every chip needs to be sourced from various mines around the world, shipped to factories to be assembled, then the end goods need to be shipped again around the world to be sold or directly dumped. High power, low power, it all has negative environmental impact.
That doesn't contradict the point, though. The negative impact on the environment is not reduced by making a less powered chip.
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> The materials that go into a chip are nothing. They really aren't. Every material that goes into every chip needs to be sourced from various mines around the world, shipped to factories to be assembled, then the end goods need to be shipped again around the world to be sold or directly dumped. High power, low power, it all has negative environmental impact.
Which materials are they and how would you suggest doing it with fewer materials?
Whenever I see another supposedly menial device including enough general purpose hardware to run Doom, I wonder whether I should think of that as a triumph of software over hardware or an economic failure to build cheaper purpose-built hardware for things like sending audio over a radio.
Like, I get it, but embedded device firmware is still efficient af. We end up stuffing a lot of power into these things because contrary to say wired Walkman headphones, these have noise cancellation, speech detection for audio ducking when you start having a conversation, support taking calls, support wakewords for assistants, etc.