Doom Has Been Ported to Nintendo Alarmo Clock

Doom Has Been Ported to the Nintendo Alarmo Clock
Running the classic Doom is a rite of passage for anything that has circuitry these days. When the Nintendo Alarmo released, some pondered when someone would get Doom running on it, and that has now happened.
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Yes, the Nintendo Alarmo can run Doom
Alarmo - Nintendo's quirky (and arguably overpriced) way to help you leap out of bed in the morning - is the latest bit of hardware to pass the 'can it run Doom' test. A post on X / Twitter by user GaryOderNichts - who is typically known for their Wii U reverse engineering efforts - appears to show that the classic 1993 first-person shooter can indeed run on Nintendo Alarmo.
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Random: Yes, Doom Is Now Playable On Nintendo Alarmo
"There's currently no audio support. To avoid the USB loader memory size restrictions, the .wad needs to be compressed and then uncompressed to external memory on boot. However, it's possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from USB, without modifying the Alarmo."
The Shores of Bell — Doom is now playable on Nintendo's $99 alarm clock
Nintendo's Alarmo alarm clock was hacked and made to run the shareware version of Doom by Twitter user GaryOderNichts, who uploaded a gameplay video of the completed job to a Twitter thread earlier this week.
"It runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day" – Nintendo's new alarm clock impresses fans
It was only a matter of time before this was going to happen. User GaryOderNichts got the famous shooter from the 90s running on an alarm clock. Not just any alarm clock, either. What is Nintendo Alarmo?
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