DOOM Port for Digita OS Digital Cameras

Greg Hackmann writes "Those nuts behind the MAME and MESS ports for the Kodak Digita cameras have done it again. Now DOOM has been ported to the Kodak Digita OS, which powers a number of digital cameras. You can pick it up at the MAMED homepage if you're so inclined. Now, I like DOOM as much as anybody else, but I think this is just a little bit insane." I gotta get one of these cameras. I don't want to take any pictures, I just want to play.

Comments

Re:What a terrible waste...

[Azog]

You are painfully ignorant of the history of Linux and BSD, and are blaming Linus for something that is not his fault.

See A Brief History of FreeBSD for some of the gory details of how FreeBSD got started, out of personal and legal fights over the old 386BSD code in 1993. FreeBSD didn't get fully clear of the legal problems until December 1994.

Meanwhile, Linus started writing Linux in 1991, and he did so because there was no freely available Unix-like operating system for x86. For heavens sake, Red Hat had already been founded by the time FreeBSD had a clear legal status!

So don't blame Linus for not working on BSD. He did NOT fail us miserably. (By the way, I have nothing against BSD - I use FreeBSD at work, and have an OpenBSD machine at home.)

And what's with your attitude that people should do what's best for the community? What community? Who decides what's best for the community? You? A system like that really would deserve the label "communism" that Free Software has been unjustly stuck with.

Free Software has historically been about people writing software that "scratches their own itch". If somebody's itch is to play DOOM on their camera, who the hell gives anyone else the right to say they should be doing something else?

God forbid that we end up with an "Open Source Community" that tells people what to do.


Torrey Hoffman (Azog)

I gotta get one of these refridgerators...

[Wakko Warner]

...I don't want to store food and keep it fresh and cold. I want to play Quake on the little 320x200 LCD screen on the front of it.

- A.P.
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Kick ass dood! :)

[dolo666]

Now we can take pictures of horrid murderous acts in schools AND get to play the games that caused them at the same time! {/sarcasm}

I fully expect to hear about some legal or moral action group against the use of Doom with digital cameras.

It would be more important than the paper vs. bidet battle of the late 20's.

/d

benchmarks...

[Barbarian]

Benchmarks for the various cameras are here
HP C500 Photosmart is best -- 33 fps!

You know, this kind of makes the 486 that I had 5 years ago seem really obsolete.

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why can't we have PDA's with this much power?

[Barbarian]

I wonder, if we can have digital cameras with processors that can run Doom, and lots of RAM to store images, why can't we have a PDA with the same power?

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Re:What a terrible waste...

[Skim123]

You have a lot of nerve to tell someone what they should be spending their time on. I could imagine people saying to Leonardo, "Hey, why are you painting that smiling lady when you could be doing so much more..." OK, perhaps we shouldn't compare this Doom port to the Mona Lisa, but I think it's wrong to try to tell an artist what to "create." Funny that you don't say: "Sigh, these guys could be working for Microsoft and making Windows better," but rather assume the computing projects that warrant these creative, talented developer's time are "coding the Linux kernel" and creating video editors for Linux... sheesh, if you want to have these kids make a real difference, have them work on an OS that gets used by more people than Linux... their hard work would be enjoyed by more people, after all...