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To commemorate the big two-oh years since its release, Bethesda has offered up the full Wolfenstein 3D experience to play for free in your web browser. Not only that, you'll also be able to play the id original on iOS devices gratis (at least for today) and creator John Carmack has decided to offer us a director's commentary on the game's development while shooting his way through a few levels. Watch, nod and reminisce right after the break, then hit up the source to play for yourself.

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Wolfenstein 3D celebrates 20 years of machine guns and flag-obscured passages with free web version originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 May 2012 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Doom for everyone. It's not a particularly festive message, but as promised earlier this month, the Doom 3 source code is now out on a general public license. Programming types can meddle with the game's inner workings as wintery temperatures force them to huddle close to the warm hum of excessive gaming rigs. Doom dad John Carmack announced the release to his horde of Twitter followers, while doffing his cap to Timothee Besset, who helped sidestep some shadow rendering license issues that had dogged an earlier release. Peer into the source code at the link below, and know the true face of despair Doom.

Doom 3 source code available now, gory customizations welcomed originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>carmackdoomdoom 3Doom3FPSgame engineGameEnginegamesgamingGPL licenseGplLicenseid softwareid techid tech 4IdSoftwareIdTechIdTech4John CarmackJohnCarmackminipostopen sourceopen sourcingOpenSourceOpenSourcingPCPC GamingPcGamingshadow renderingShadowRenderingWed, 23 Nov 2011 06:48:00 EST<![CDATA[Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/carmack-doom-3s-engine-ready-for-open-sourcing-awaiting-ok/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/carmack-doom-3s-engine-ready-for-open-sourcing-awaiting-ok/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/01/carmack-doom-3s-engine-ready-for-open-sourcing-awaiting-ok/#comments When the granddaddy of FPS tweets, we listen. For those unaware, that's John Carmack -- you know, the guy behind games like Doom, Quake and Rage -- confirming that Doom 3's engine, id Tech 4, is all bundled up for its open-source release, only awaiting clearance from legal. To be verbose, that doesn't mean you'll be getting down with a gratis copy of Doom, but rather with the powerhouse that powers it, a veritable boon to game developers and tinkerers, alike. The release is par for the course for the company, as id Software's been routinely open-sourcing its older engines for as long as we can remember. We'll keep an eye out for when it drops, but while you wait, feel free to read an interview with the visionary himself.

Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Doom now approved for sale in Germany, 17 years later originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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[Thanks, Zach]

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Doom 2 gets ported to PocketBook 360 Plus e-reader (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Charting the upgrade path from DOS 5.0 to Windows 7 (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, folks have ported games over to the good ol' number cruncher for ages, but getting a fully rendered classic like Doom to run on a calculator is a different feat altogether. The folks over at omnimaga have successfully moved a beta version of nDoom (a reworked version of the original id Software's FPS) over to a Texas Instruments TI-Nspire and -- with all things considered -- the game runs shockingly smooth. As of right now, the only proof of concept is the video you see above, with a tragic crash bringing all things dangerous to a dismal halt. We're looking forward to a fully working version of nDoom because, you know, video games and calculators are two things close to our nerdy hearts.

TI-Nspire calculator: yes, it plays Doom originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Doom-themed live wallpaper for Android turns your phone into a playground of carnage originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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 No matter how weak or powerful the gadget, one brave soul will always broach the all-important question: can it play Doom? Just four days after hacking the Zune HD and unleashing the OpenZDK, the Zune community has received its answer. ZuneBoards forumgoer Netrix has opened the portal to the familiar alien hell, where gamers will writhe in agony as they struggle with tilt and touchscreen controls. Those who persevere regardless will find the app runs any of the original Doom WAD files. Full installer available at the source link; see OpenZDK's power in action after the break.

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Zune HD: yes, it plays Doom originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The prospects of a Future Inevitable Internet Collapse[TM] has some of our readers seriously freaked out. You know the type -- they live in places like Idaho and Montana, in fortified mountaintop retreats, where they hoard digital media like it was canned food in December 1999. And concerns over bandwidth aren't limited to a lunatic fringe -- no less august a publication than IEEE Spectrum has recently posted an article by Lawrence G. Roberts (who pretty much helped invent the modern router) in which he discusses the state of the Internet. According to Roberts, our current routers are still designed to handle much smaller amounts of data than they are currently pushing. Streaming data only works at all, he says, due to extreme over-provisioning -- "Network operators," he says, are throwing "bandwidth at a problem that really requires a computing solution."

One possible solution is something called "flow management." Instead of routing each packet individually, a flow router attaches an ID to each packet in a specific stream ("flow"). After the first packet is routed, each subsequent packet with the same ID is sent along the same route -- cutting down on time and on the amount of lost packets. Roberts' company, Anagran, has one such device on the market now -- the FR-1000, which he says consumes one fifth the power of a comparable (traditional) router, one tenth the space, and should reduce operating costs in GB/s by a factor of ten. And this, dear readers, may be the key to the survival of the Internet -- that is, until the robots get us.

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Palm Pre runs Doom, smartphone-loving space marines rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Okay, so first things first -- we all know the world's on track to end in 2012, so it's not like this really matters. But if, just if it manages to survive (à la Y2K), you can pretty much bank on a mass reversal of culture as we all push aside our netbooks and return to the playground. According to some "research" slated to be fully published "later this year," PCs and laptops are apt to "operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the internet an unreliable toy" from 2012 onward. The reason? Massive growth in internet demand, which is undoubtedly on pace to crush existing infrastructure that can't ever be improved upon by anyone, regardless of their market capitalization or determination to expand. It's noted that the internet itself will somehow survive, but that users will begin to see "brownouts," which are described as "a combination of temporary freezing and computers being reduced to a slow speed." Thank heavens for FinallyFast, right?

Psst... the solution to all of this is just past the break.

[Thanks, Colin]

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Doomsday alert: internet to become an "unreliable toy" in 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>2012bandwidthbrownoutbrownoutscyberspacedangerdoominternetresearchwebworld wide webWorldWideWebThu, 30 Apr 2009 14:59:00 EST<![CDATA[Will it play Doom? Yes: id Software creates mobile division]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/will-it-play-doom-yes-id-software-creates-mobile-division/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/will-it-play-doom-yes-id-software-creates-mobile-division/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/15/will-it-play-doom-yes-id-software-creates-mobile-division/#commentsGranted, mobile versions of Doom aren't exactly in short supply, but the variety of mobile games coming out of legendary id Software's arsenal is about to explode. Founder John Carmack's wife -- who just happens to have started Fountainhead Games, the co-creator of Doom RPG for phones -- has been tapped to lead id Mobile with the goal of creating mobile ports of Wolfenstein and Quake (official ones, anyway) along with a sequel to the moderately successful Doom RPG. Long term, Carmack's hoping that we're on a cusp of an explosion in the popularity of mobile gaming, an explosion that could very well end up being driven by full-force entries into the arena by companies like id as they start to pull top-tier game developers into a field that's been historically dominated by offal from the desktop and console gaming worlds.

[Via mocoNews]

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Considering that Doom runs smooth as butter on Nokia's 770, the OLPC XO, and the iPod, you knew it was only a matter of time before this classic made its way over to the iPhone. Just in time for the weekend, Doom is now available for Apple's first handset. And just in case blasting through pixelated fiends wears you out, why not check out the new and improved NES emulator? We won't waste anymore of your precious iPhone gaming time here, now get your downloads on below!

Update: So you can't exactly -- what's the word we're looking for -- "play" Doom quite yet, it seems the controller ain't working. It's a promising sign, though!

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Considering that Doom runs smooth as butter on Nokia's 770, the OLPC XO, and the iPod, you knew it was only a matter of time before this classic made its way over to the iPhone. Just in time for the weekend, Doom is now available for Apple's first handset. And just in case blasting through pixelated fiends wears you out, why not check out the new and improved NES emulator? We won't waste anymore of your precious iPhone gaming time here, now get your downloads on below!

Update: So you can't exactly -- what's the word we're looking for -- "play" Doom quite yet, it seems the controller ain't working. It's a promising sign, though!

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>appledoomdownloademulationemulatoriphonenessoftwareSat, 11 Aug 2007 13:43:00 EST<![CDATA[iPod NES hack explained]]>http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/ipod-nes-hack-explained/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/ipod-nes-hack-explained/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/17/ipod-nes-hack-explained/#commentsIf f00 f00's NES-enhanced iPod has left you seriously reconsidering your choice of portable Doom controls, you can now do more than just stare at your iPod's suddenly inadequate click wheel, with f00 f00 following up his tantalizing video with a full step-by-step guide for bridging your own iPod/NES divide. As with most hacks involving a soldering gun, however, it's not exactly for the faint of heart or those concerned with warranties. That said, as far as NES-related hacks go, this one looks to be relatively straightforward, requiring just a few readily available parts and the requisite amount of skill and patience. As it turns out, however, the controller doesn't actually function as a dock, although f00 f00 says that would be a relatively easy modification to make.

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"Towel trick" provides temporary fix to Xbox 360's red ring of doom? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What has yours done today? Yeah, maybe you've fiddled around with Linux on your 'Pod, or even got that version of Doom up and running way back when, but you've just got nothing on this hack by f00 f00, which turns an old NES controller into an iPod dock and provides some of the best Doom controls we've seen yet. Yeah, we're jealous too. No word on exactly how f00 f00 pulled this off, but it's not like we'd be able to follow along anyways. Peep the action vid after the break.

[Via Hack-A-Day]

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f00 f00's iPod runs Doom, controlled by NES controller originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What good is another bonafide learning tool without a dash of fun beneath the hood? While OLPC XOs have just recently started rolling off production lines (and heading to eBay, most likely), it seems a few folks with a thing for 1992 have put the long-awaited machine to its best use yet. While Quanta Computer is slated to start a "test production" of these gizmos any day now, these bandits tested out its compatibility with a retro classic by installing (and successfully playing) the original Doom. Although this title has been the focal point of quite a few ports throughout the years, we'd say this rendition is definitely vying for king of them all, so be sure to continue on for the YouTube presentation.

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OLPC XO: yes, it plays Doom originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>2b1doomnicknegolpcportportedxoyoutubeWed, 29 Nov 2006 11:23:00 EST<![CDATA[Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/#commentsJapan, which once topped the list of world's fastest supercomputers with NEC's Earth Simulator, has seen its position deteriorate in recent years in the face of faster machines like IBM's 280-teraflop BlueGene/L. Well now it looks like a new Japanese rig is poised to regain the top of the charts, and the most amazing thing about Riken's MDGrape-3 -- besides its claimed 1 petaflop performance -- is the fact that it cost only $9 million to build, giving it a per-gigaflop pricetag of just $15 (compared to the $140/gigaflop cost of IBM's top dog). Developed in conjunction with Hitachi, Intel, and NEC subsidiary SGI Japan, MDGrape-3 is being tasked with helping the pharmaceutical industry model new drugs, as it can calculate the chemical bonding properties of a proposed drug-protein combo in mere seconds. While BlueGene/L contains a whopping 130,000 processors distributed over 65,000 nodes, Riken's closet-sized machine needs only 4,808 chips to achieve four times its speed for certain applications. Oh, and despite the impressive-sounding performance, due to the specialized nature of its design, its unlikely that you'll see MDGrape-3 rocking a game of Doom anytime soon.

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Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you're one of the ten thousand HD-DVD owners out there, at least you have some options. Once Blu-ray launches, we can probably expect quick online support there also, but it will be interesting to see who gets titles in brick & mortar stores first.

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HD-DVD titles show up on Blockbuster.com originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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