The classic 90s game is squeezed on to a Raspberry Pi microcontroller that costs less than a coffee
There was a time when Doom was the epitome of 3D PC gaming. Now it’s possible to run a multiplayer version of the game on the cheapest Raspberry Pi computer.
The Raspberry Pi Pico is a microcontroller with only 2MB of Flash memory for all the code and data to sit in. It costs less than a coffee in Starbucks. That, however, didn’t prevent Graham Sanderson from getting a fully playable version of the classic game up and running on the limited hardware, as you canSanderson wanted the Pico version of Doom to be as close to the original gaming experience as possible. That meant 320 x 200 resolution graphics, stereo sound effects, and all nine levels of the game.
That last one was a major challenge, given that the shareware version of Doom is 4MB in size, twice the available memory available on the Pico. “All in all, there are quite a number of interesting and perhaps unusual techniques used to shoe-horn the data into the new WHD (“
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