play doom – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Play Doom On Your Pre https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2009/06/13/play-doom-on-your-pre/ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:00:50 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=1201 Despite the short list of Palm Pre apps available from the app catalog, plenty of folks are choosing Palm as their smartphone provider of choice. As soon as the application dev kit gets out, hopefully the list will continue to expand, including some new games. In the meantime, take a look at this homebrew fix […]

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]]> Doom!Despite the short list of Palm Pre apps available from the app catalog, plenty of folks are choosing Palm as their smartphone provider of choice. As soon as the application dev kit gets out, hopefully the list will continue to expand, including some new games.

In the meantime, take a look at this homebrew fix from a guy known only as Sargun. He’s managed to port Doom (at least the open source version, PRDoom) to the Pre, bringing demonized, gun-riddled hell to Palm’s newest release. Sargun used DirectFB to load the graphics through the Pre framebuffer and says getting the hack to work is fairly trivial.

If you’ve got some time on your hands, and decent geeky ninja skills, you should be able to get this (nearly) fully-functional game to your Pre without much trouble. I hope you also sport some TINY thumbs. The controls look…unwieldy at best.

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