So enjoy a bit of nostalgia on a calculator. A site called It Runs Doom! has managed to get the game running on a toaster, an ATM and even a digital camera. Later remastered as zDoom (no relation) to run on the TI-84+ as well. A relatively polished assembler release for TI-83 and TI-83+, supporting multiple weapons, multiple levels, savestates, and OS multitasking. Intrepid gamers are always trying to get the popular FPS to run on whatever they can, given that id Software made the MSDOS-based code, released to the public in 1997, much easier to port to other platforms than its predecessor Wolfenstein. Doom86, a TI-86 Basic game self-described as a 'Doom-like game' was released in early March of 2000. Don't expect much, given the 6 MHz microprocessor, but they are playable. And within a short time, the games are up and running. Lazy Game Reviews (via Motherboard) took a TI-83 Plus it found for $5 and proceeded to load the games onto the calculator using TI-Connect Graph Link software and games from . The site offers Doom, Tetris, Super Mario, and other popular old school games specifically for Texas Instruments calculators. There are quite a few of them still around, with some capable of running games such as Doom and Super Mario. It was programmable and could do amazing things, especially in math class. If you went to school in the 1990s, then you probably remember a pretty powerful calculator for its time from Texas Instruments.
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