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I've heard someone got a waffle iron to run Doom.

In all seriousness, someone programmed a graphing calculator to run Doom before. And I think someone got their refrigerator to run the game.
 
FYI: Someone made a doom semi copy(raycasting engine)in factorio: VER 1/ VER 2

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kelgar04 said:
Oh no is Danny going to come home and find a sleep deprived taylor has made all the house electronics playing doom.
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Including the light switches. Don't ask how she managed to do so without redoing any of the wiring with the normal ones...
Just don't ask.
 
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To be fair, BeeOS hasn't been trademarked or patented in Earth Bet yet (to the best of my meager knowledge).

... Is it?
 
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Not to mention how much of the financial world is still using COBOL code that is on life support.
 
cryptoam said:
Not to mention how much of the financial world is still using COBOL code that is on life support.
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Actually, that's not really true these days. It was the case around 2000, but since then, most of that stuff has been replaced - probably because it was becoming impossible to find anyone who could maintain the stuff. A couple years back, I worked for Société Générale as a Python developer; one time I made a joke to my boss's boss at a meeting about brushing up on my COBOL, and was informed that they'd decommissioned the last of their legacy COBOL infrastructure around 2010.
 
Granted, BeOS isn't under active official development anymore. I just find it weird that it's still in active development, and people still prefer running it on their Mac.
 
Vyrexuviel said:
I still write programs for my vintage TI-83 Plus graphing calculator from 1997. I got used to it over the past 24 years.
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The TI-83/84 series (as far as I can tell functionally identical) is one of the big constants of the past quarter century, oddly. There ARE more advanced calculators, but for a lot of purposes you just plain hit the point of diminishing returns adding much more capability, so the only "better" place to go is "TI-83 emulator on your smartphone or computer." At which point you lose the programmability.
 
Simon_Jester said:
The TI-83/84 series (as far as I can tell functionally identical) is one of the big constants of the past quarter century, oddly. There ARE more advanced calculators, but for a lot of purposes you just plain hit the point of diminishing returns adding much more capability, so the only "better" place to go is "TI-83 emulator on your smartphone or computer." At which point you lose the programmability.
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Err, for professionals, the actual go-to was the HP series - 48/49/50, which had serious memory plus IR communication useful not only for cheating in class but more importantly for using accessories like printers or interfacing with other professional gear.
 
Epic Reader said:
Err, for professionals, the actual go-to was the HP series - 48/49/50, which had serious memory plus IR communication useful not only for cheating in class but more importantly for using accessories like printers or interfacing with other professional gear.
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Well at that point you aren't looking for a calculator you're looking for a computer. But this is irrelevant to the story so I'm not going to reply to any replies.
 
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