Have you played Doom on office equipment? Apparently you can!
Doom is still a fun benchmark for random devices with a processor inside
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There’s no secret for anyone that even GPT-4 AI can play Doom, but have you tried playing on an office equipment? The Ctrl Alt Rees, a British guy famous for trying the weirdest devices that can play the shareware version of Doom has demonstrated the same feat on the biggest rig that ever played Doom: a desk PC.
Apparently, a British manufacturer called Time was producing PCs that were built into office desks in the early 2000s and Rees found one in perfect condition running Windows 2000 Professional.
He bought the machine with $38 from a community center on eBay. Unfortunately, the PC was password protected so he had to install Windows 98 instead and outfit it for Doom.
The PC came in with one of the earliest CTX LCD monitors, a fax machine, a 64k modem, a sturdy keyboard (which apparently survived unharmed and a ball mouse (do you remember those?).
Rees discovered in the desk a Gigabyte Micro ATX GA-7VKMP motherboard, an AMD Duron 1100 Single-Core CPU running at up to 1.1 GHz and an 1 GB RAM module. Not only that Doom ran incredibly smooth, but the British also succeeded in installing the Windows’ MIDI driver to get the audio from the game.
We can’t say we’re not impressed but playing Tetris in Microsoft Excel seems a bit more outrageous. We’ve learned about this from Tom’s Hardware.
What is the craziest device you’ve seen Doom running on? Tell us all about it in the comments section below.
