Of course someone has Doom running on Nintendo Alarmo now
Earlier this week, Tom told us Nintendo Alarmo couldn't yet run Doom, but did confirm it could display a picture of a
In just 3 days, the state of Nintendo Alarmo hacking went from 'it loads a cat jpg' to 'it runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day'
First reported by Eurogamer, Nintendo hardware enthusiast GaryOderNichts has subjected the Japanese publisher's new Alarmo smart clock to everyone's favorite hacker right of passage: Forcing the proprietary little device to run id Software's seminal 1993 FPS,
Hackers Achieve the Inevitable: They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo to Play Doom
Hardware hackers prove they can make the Nintendo Alarmo play whatever they want on screen without ripping out its guts.
"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?
Yes, the Nintendo Alarmo can run Doom
Obviously, the Alarmo isn't the ideal or optimal way to play Doom (we've got an exceptional recently released Nightdive Studios-led remaster for that), but that isn't the point. Getting Doom to run on things it has no business running on has been a decades-long endeavor.
Modder brings Doom to Nintendo's cutesy Alarmo clock
Just a few weeks after the Nintendo Alarmo was introduced to the public, developers have already found a way to "play" the granddaddy of modern first-person
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.
DOOM now runs on Alarmo: here’s how id Software’s classic FPS plays on Nintendo’s alarm clock
To everyone’s surprise, a few succeeded and added unexpected content to Nintendo’s peculiar item. A player and fan of id Software took the opportunity to do what any DOOM love
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Doom for the Nintendo alarm clock? It's here, and the 90s shooter runs surprisingly smoothly
TL;DR: Nintendo's new alarm clock, Alarmo, can run the classic game Doom, as demonstrated by GaryOderNichts. The game runs ...
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Nintendo's Alarmo Has Already Been Hacked To Include Cat Pictures
A Wii U hack enthusiast has already found a way to run customized code on Nintendo's Alarmo without opening it up.
Random: Someone's Figured Out How To Run Custom Code On Nintendo's Alarmo
Look, it was only a matter of time before people started using the Alarmo for things that aren't sleep or alarm clock related ...
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Nintendo Alarmo spielt "Doom"
Nintendo's new gamification alarm clock Alarmo has a new field of application: thanks to the hacker GaryOderNichts, it can ...