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[Draugoth]

Well, it’s been about a hundredth of a femtosecond, let’s see what people are trying to port Doom onto now. Oh my, would you look at that! It appears as though it’s possible to get id Software’s iconic FPS to “run” on cells.

In a meeting of technology and biology, PhD student Lauren “Ren” Ramlan at MIT (as shared by Reddit user AnNdPh) has figured out a way to use E. coli cells to sort of run Doom. Now, I’m not scientifically minded, so I don’t fully understand how they do it.

In a nutshell: what they’ve been able to do is tweak or modify the cells to – for want of a better term – turn them into monitor pixels. This has then allowed them to display the game in a very rudimentary way.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Cyberdemons here we come!

 

[Hypno Funk]

Obligatory:
- 60 fps or bust
- Sony did it already with the Cell processor.

Great fun with science, thanks for sharing!

 

[BouncyFrag]

Into my veins.

 

[kruis]

How long before it’s possible to take photos with an actual potato?

 

[Holammer]

They are using cells for display, cute I guess.
Let me know when a wetware computer is running the game.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I like how they say people can run doom on doom lol

 

[Portugeezer]

DLSS support?

 

[MarkMe2525]

Fuck yeah.

Edit: Not as visually impressive as I first thought, but god damn I still give her credit for making this a reality. Next step of course is Crysis.

 

[Freelance Yakuza]

Perfect for Xcloud

 

[AutumnLeaves]

This is insane.

 

[geary]

No raytracing?

 

[MiguelItUp]

I love this so much. Absolutely insane.

 

[Shifty1897]

I love this video and hope she gets an A or whatever doctoral MIT students get that is considered a good grade...

...BUT I have to point out that she's not really running Doom on cells, she's just displaying Doom on cells. She built a 1-bit display, not a computer that can run an application. Still super cool.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

You get a lot of these things where people can run Doom off a photocopier or calculator.

Is there something special about Doom coding that makes it portable to every device? Or simply a meme where anyone wanting to covert a game simply chooses Doom to one up the next guy?

 

[Sonik]

Still better performance than the 3DO version

 

[Svejk]

What happens when the DOOM music kicks in?

 

[Dacvak]

Big deal. Sony already got Doom 3 running on their cell processor too.

 

[Hudo]

It would be quite something to get Resident Evil to "run" on these bacteria cells.

 

[tommib]

This is quite insane, right? Skynet soon?

 

[Spukc]

How long before it’s possible to take photos with an actual potato?

dude you can and it's not fucking hard



pinhole lenses

 

[keraj37]

Is something special about Doom coding that makes it portable to every device? Or simply a meme where anyone wanting to covert a game simply chooses Doom to one up the next guy?

Yes, it was coded by a genius from ID software, Carmack himself, and the code is very optimized and clean, therefor porting is is relatively easy.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Fuck yeah.

Edit: Not as visually impressive as I first thought, but god damn I still give her credit for making this a reality. Next step of course is Crysis.

I can see it now.

"I'm so high-test my cells can run Crysis."

 

[Loomy]

This is really cool. Curious about other applications of this.

 

[Krappadizzle]

Big deal. Sony already got Doom 3 running on their cell processor too.

 

[RoboFu]

Cool in 600 years tramp stamp tattoso can finally evolve to full on whormations

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

They are using cells for display, cute I guess.
Let me know when a wetware computer is running the game.

I'm pretty sure some YouTuber who genetically modified himself to be lactose tolerant is trying to run it on rat neurons