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Weirdest Things People Have Made Doom Run On

Someone ran Doom on a DSLR at Gamescom; the hardware list is now completely absurd.

BY LISTICCO_GAMES
2 weeks ago ¡ edited today
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A Canon DSLR camera
A Canon DSLR became Gamescom's newest Doom machine, using the camera's own buttons to control a game the hardware was never designed to display.
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A pregnancy test
The pregnancy test's original display was replaced, but the tiny plastic device genuinely processed Doom, preserving the stunt's essential absurdity.
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An ATM
An ATM has enough conventional computing hardware to run the game, although playing Doom on a machine designed to dispense cash remains beautifully unnecessary.
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An Apple Watch
An Apple Watch offers almost no useful screen or controls, but apparently a wrist contains enough hardware for a recognizable trip to Mars.
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A MacBook Pro Touch Bar
The MacBook Pro Touch Bar produces the world's widest and shortest view of the first level, technically playable and practically ridiculous.
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A digital camera
Running Doom on a digital camera postpones photography until the Cyberdemon is gone and turns familiar control buttons into an improvised gamepad.
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A printer
The printer's display refreshes terribly, which turns familiar demons into flickering threats and somehow makes the old shooter look more menacing.
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A graphing calculator
Graphing calculators became the school-computer classic for Doom ports because determined students found enough processing power behind those tiny monochrome screens.
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A John Deere tractor display
A John Deere tractor display can open the gates of hell between field operations, proving agricultural hardware is now far more capable than necessary.
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An oscilloscope
An oscilloscope reduces Doom to glowing green vector-like lines, yet the corridors and enemies remain immediately readable as the same game.
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