Imagine 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around you, what would you do?
YouTuber Equalo aced in it with his unique idea to use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator
Filename zdoom.zip Title zDoom 0.12 Description zDoom (formerly Doom83) is an adaptation of Doom on TI-83(+)/84+. It features 4 levels, 3 weapons, game save/restore, enemy AI and a decent challenge. Ti 84 Plus Doom Game For Pc Game. On the left column, under the Original TI Connect Software, there is a list of supported calculators, make sure that your calculator is on that list, if not this inscrutables may not be for you, sorry. Ti 84 Plus Doom Tutorial.
No wonder, since that TI-83/84 'Doom' thing dates back to the mid 90s -predating the Doom source code release, and of course the very first videos you'll find of it will also be the oldest one around -2008, 'old' by Youtube standards. CellSheet™ App for TI-84 Plus CE/T Family 5.1 120 Conic Graphing App for TI-84 Plus CE/T Family 5.1 41 Vernier EasyData™ App for TI-84 Plus CE/T Family 5.3.6 163 TI-Innovator™ Hub CE application for the TI-84 Plus CE/T Family 5.4 6.
He spent almost a week planning out the number of potatoes he would need and in the configuration they should be wired to receive the proper number of volts and amps to play the original Doom on TI 84 Plus.
Unlike most of the fans who have spent the game to run on every possible electronic device, Equalo on the other hand tried to power the game itself using only root veggies.
It all started with taking measures of how much current he could get out of a single potato.
The Youtuber placed a piece of zinc on one end and at the other a piece of copper
After which he calculated the amount he would require to power a Raspberry Pi computer.
After sorting out everything he decided on 100 pounds of potatoes to form into a grid of over 700 slice composition.
The process took him several days as he had to boil the potatoes to them make them better conductors (increase in starch concentration)
Finally, Equalo reached over 100 milliamps and 5 volts of current he required.
Ti 84 Doom Code
But the Raspberry Pi never booted up. Instead of losing hope, the YouTuber decided to use the TI-84 graphing calculator. Why? Well, because it requires very little power to start and can also function in the rudimentary version of Doom.