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.

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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...