Doom now playable on a TI-Nspire calculator

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The Nspire is actually pretty powerful compared to the 6mhz z80 TI-8X's many of us grew up with.

It's running an ARM 9 CPU at 150 MHz and has 32MB of SDRAM.

That's a lot more powerful than the 486DX 40Mhz with 4MB of RAM I used to play it on.

I remember messing around with a (much simpler) 3D engine on my old TI-89.

I'm honestly not surprised that high-end calculators have got the grunt to do this - it's not exactly HD video they need to render.

Check out this (slightly simpler) Doom-style engine (loaded with a portion of a Doom map even!) running on a ti-84+^: http://benryves.com/journal/3739423 Texture-less, but a far more impressive feat in my mind.

^16MHz Zilog z80, an 8-bit cpu.

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