“The Touch Bar on Apple’s new MacBook has been pretty controversial, but there’s one thing fans and haters alike can agree on: this thing was definitely made to run Doom,” James Vincent writes for The Verge.
“Putting the classic shooter on any given piece of hardware has become something of a minimum viable hack in the tech community, and as the Touch Bar is essentially a mini Apple Watch jammed above the laptop’s keyboard, there’s no reason it too can’t get involved,” Vincent writes.
Vincent writes, “iOS developer Adam Bell stepped up to the plate for this one, uploading the video [below] to YouTube.”
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OMG this made me laugh.
lol, it’s a big ol’ “hoop-te’-fuckin’-do.”
Oh how far Apple has fallen.
🗣🇭🅰🇭🅰🇭🅰❣
Some people just have too much time on their hands…
Framerate or it didn’t happen.
This hardens back to making music by modulating paper tape reader relays fro Altair 8800 computers. Yeh, I’m old.
Or playing music on the Commodore 1541 floppy drive.
peek and poke.
Ah the memories. I play around with the C64 emulator online once in a while.
cool. 🙂
Is this what we’ve been reduced to?
Still it’s about the best use I’ve seen for the touch bar so far.
Does this proves that we get so advanced in processing power,
that the processor in the touch bar is equally powerfull to the processor that runs Doom in 1993?
The ultimate example of “because you can”.