Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors

There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope. Enter Mike Ayles, who pondered if it was possible to render Doom in vectors using KiCad. The answer? Of course it was. …

[Empire of the Pussycat]

Never heard of KiCad before, looks interesting!

Back in the 70s-80s I'd've killed for something like this.

If it was your design, you drew the first schematics and designed the layout for initial prototypes, ink on acetate with rotrings and a stack of various adhesive pad layouts for different devices. Simulations were on a minicomputer and graphics were crude.

Umpteen jobs ago now, but downloading it for a play.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Never heard of KiCad before, looks interesting!

It's "good enough" for a lot of even pretty advanced high frequency PCBs

We use it for R&D stuff - cos our production ECAD requires every part to be approved by 18 layers of purchasing management before you can import it.

[Philip Storry]

Maybe DOOM is an inevitable universal constant?

I have a growing suspicion that the only reason our universe exists is that some entity wanted to know just how many things DOOM could run on. So it span up this universe, just to find out.

The possibility that we only exist to explore the DOOM runtime space is both terrifying and yet strangely comforting, if only because it makes a lot more sense than many of the other reasons offered for our existence.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Maybe DOOM is an inevitable universal constant?

So we're in the Matrix and it's is just somebody's weekend project to get into intergalactic-reg ?

That explains a lot...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Maybe DOOM is an inevitable universal constant?

Just wait until we head to Mars and build a base on Phobos...

[Blackjack]

Time to see if anyone does a Doom port to the Gameboy Color.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Page blocked on my work network, but this may be your answer

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/149019-gbdoom-doom-port-for-gameboy/

[NXM]

next stop:

Asteroids!

It was vector-plot to start with anyway. Wish I had the time to give it a go.

Majestic work there on doom though.

[Gene Cash]

Re: next stop:

About a decade ago, while maintaining an internal website, I found an Asteroids game JAR so I dropped it in there and put a "play asteroids" link at the end of the help file.

It took 11 months before I was yelled at to remove it.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Lets not force oscilloscope music

Combine Visual and Sound.

Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdRQ3zU6Uc - actually not, a newer video of him, but it sounds/looks like one)

And his blocks were the first I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KDekS4YUy4 Start slow 2D, slow 3D, and then rotate and move wild in 3D at about 1:23