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If you enjoy old school dungeon crawls or D&D, you're going to want to check out Depths of Endore on Steam or your favorite mobile device.

#depthsofendor #fantasy #dungeoncrawl #adventure #retro #rpg #gaming #videogame #keymailer #blog #review

https://churapereviews.com/2024/11/22/is-depths-of-endor-worth-your-time-find-out/


The newest Device to run Doom: Nintendo's Alarm Clock [Alarmo].

A hardware hacker [GaryOberNichts] has successfully modified Nintendo's $100 Alarmo device to run the classic video game Doom. This marking another milestone in the gaming community's tradition of porting the 1993 shooter to unconventional devices.

https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/alarmo_doom

#doom #nintendo #alarmo #port #hack #it #engineer #programming #retro #gaming #art #media #tech #artist #news
Doom, the iconic first person shooter, is often used to showcase how the open source game can run on almost any device you can think of.

The hack came after researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the Alarmo's STM32H7 microcontroller, enabling custom firmware installation through its USB-C port.
YouTuber GaryOderNichts demonstrated the 2.8-inch circular alarm clock running Chocolate Doom natively, using the device's wheel for movement and side buttons for weapons. The hack requires no hardware modifications and works on the current 2.0 software version.

Gary said it’s “possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from USB, without modifying the Alarmo.” And they’ve put the software and instructions for running it on Github, so almost any sufficiently knowledgeable and determined Alarmo owner can do it, too. Best of all, it can be done without opening the clock up at all.

<https://youtu.be/5IOVYvSMAoU>
While everyone was waiting on news for the successor of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo released the Alarmo. A small plastic alarm clock that can wake one up with sounds from ones favorite Nintendo games.

The Alarmo has a small 2.8-inch LCD at the front, a back and notification button on top and a dial on top which can be turned and pressed to act as a confirm button. The dial also includes an RGB LED. What makes it different from other alarm clocks? It has 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to download software updates and additional themes, and it comes with a 24GHz mmWave presence sensor to react to your movements.

<Inside there is an STM32H730ZBI6 MCU and a KIOXIA 4GB eMMC.>


The Turing Machine made Real, In LEGO.

A working Turing Machine was submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness. The original machine was devised by mathematician Alan Turing in 1936. Turing's idea was a hypothetical system that could simulate any computer algorithm.

https://youtu.be/8AA3E05axHw?si=MWCSLoUNAxo2TiWD

#turing #machine #history #retro #computing #lego #artist #it #engineer #media #tech #art #news
The British mathematician and pioneer of computing Alan Turing published a paper in 1936 which described a Universal Machine, a theoretical model of a computer processor that would later become known as a Turing Machine.

Physical representations on Turing's model are an interesting engineering and computational challenge, and while any algorithm can be simulated, such machines are nowhere near as performant as purpose-built silicon. The Turing Machine still does, however, represent a useful model for students of computation.
[ImageSource: Bananaman 2018]

The design consisted of an infinitely long tape with symbols that could be moved left and right, a 'head' that could read the symbols and overwrite them with new ones, a finite control that described the machine's state, and a table to link each combination of state and symbol to an instruction for what to do next.

In addition to the constraints of making the device out of Lego, there was also the challenge of fitting into the limits imposed by Lego Ideas. At the time of submission, this was 3,000 parts and The Bananaman's contraption finally managed to come in at around 2,900. The limit has since been raised to 5,000 parts.

Fans of 3D printing will no doubt be pleased to note that some of the parts (notably one of the large gears) came from a printer, but only because buying missing bits online tends to take longer and cost more. A real-world version of the model was designed and built first to make sure it worked.
[ImageSource: 6zacl8.blogspot]

The original Alan Turing machine.

First demonstrated in 1950, this is one of Britain's earliest stored program computers and the oldest complete general purpose electronic computer in Britain. Designed and built at the National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex in 1949-1950, it was based on plans for a larger computer (the ACE) designed by the mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) at NPL between 1945 and 1947. Previously Turing worked on the Colossus computer used in codebreaking at Bletchley Park during World War II. Pilot ACE was estimated to have cost £50,000 to design and build, but by 1954 had earned over £240,000 from advanced scientific and engineering work in various fields including crystallography, aeronautics and computing bomb trajectories.


As mentioned in a later post, I'm going to make both entries in spanish and english on my blog, and separate them with tags for easy filtering.

So here's my first post in english 😊

#Blog #Blogging #GameDev #Retro #GameEngines #Panda3D

https://mehc-devlog.bearblog.dev/chapter-1-what-will-this-project-be-like/