{"id":4036,"date":"2022-01-26T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2022-01-26T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:52:29","slug":"playing-doom-on-the-teeniest-tiniest-gaming-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2022\/01\/playing-doom-on-the-teeniest-tiniest-gaming-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Doom on the teeniest-tiniest gaming machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOOM is often the &#8220;hello world&#8221; for what&#8217;s possible on hardware, particularly when there&#8217;s a screen and some button inputs.<\/p>\n<p>We ported Retro-Go https:\/\/github.com\/ducalex\/retro-go over to work on our QT Py ESP32 Pico board and since Retro-Go has a port of PrBoom for the ESP32, it pretty much just worked loading up the shareware DOOM1.WAD file off of a microSD card. Amazing how capable retro-go is once the hardware layout is defined.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQdX9u-WM2M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2022\/01\/24\/is-this-one-of-the-smallest-playable-doom-devices\/\">Is this one of the smallest playable DOOM devices?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOOM is often the &#8220;hello world&#8221; for what&#8217;s possible on hardware, particularly when there&#8217;s a screen and some button inputs. We ported Retro-Go https:\/\/github.com\/ducalex\/retro-go over to work on our QT Py ESP32 Pico board and since Retro-Go has a port of PrBoom for the ESP32, it pretty much just worked loading up the shareware DOOM1.WAD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}