We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

My 12 y/o daughter recently ran into a "does it run DOOM" reference in media (I think a graphic novel-- not sure) and asked me about it. I got to explain the phenomenon and show her some examples (she found the pregnancy test to be particularly amusing). I'll have to show her this one.

’ve been following Adrian's Afga system series, great dive into the unknown.

Realistically, I would've stopped the moment BASIC worked, called it "good enough," and then gotten distracted attempting to write a Forth for it.

Looks roughly as smooth as it looked on my 25mhz 386

I am faintly disappointed that "running Doom" did not involve printing out a series of frames at a hilariously low effective framerate, then taking the pile and using it as a flipbook.

I mean, sure, major props for kludging your own video generator in there, but...

Now please do it on a Cray-1 from 1976!

This is freaking awesome.

Agfa: now there's a name you don't see any more.

Now do Crysis