My 12 y/o daughter recently ran into a "does it run DOOM" reference in media (I ...

vardump · 2026-04-15T16:54:08 1776272048

The pregnancy test had altered innards. So it was fake.

anthk · 2026-04-15T18:38:19 1776278299

But you can play Zachine v3 games in a pencil, such as Zork I-III, Tristam Island, Calypso... with builtin writting recognition under some special printed sheets (where you can print and then xerox them for the cheap).

EvanAnderson · 2026-04-15T17:15:50 1776273350

Sadness for that, and for my inability to read in-depth.

vardump · 2026-04-15T20:04:56 1776283496

Well, it's still a great idea and a cool project.

kibibu · 2026-04-16T07:57:23 1776326243

Not fake exactly

The achievement was using the screen, not actually running the rendering engine.

Everybody else misinterpreted the original hack.

vardump · 2026-04-17T20:55:53 1776459353

Also the screen was replaced.

Something1234 · 2026-04-15T16:32:19 1776270739

What’s the graphic novel?

EvanAnderson · 2026-04-15T16:43:59 1776271439

I don't know. I'll ask her. She burns thru them and it may have already been returned to the library.

EvanAnderson · 2026-04-16T06:00:17 1776319217

I was conflating. She said another kid at school (who has a self-taught programming background) talked about running DOOM on the microbit devices they started programming at school. She didn't follow the reference. (The graphic novel inquiry was an unrelated bit of cultural idiom.)