They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo to Play Doom

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Alarmo: Nintendo’s Latest Device Is a $100 Wake-Up Call
An internet-connected alarm clock is an odd idea even for Nintendo. But it's the sort of experiment that means the company continues to endure.
Doom Has Been Ported to the Nintendo Alarmo Clock
Running the classic Doom is a rite of passage for anything that has circuitry these days. When the Nintendo Alarmo released, some pondered when someone would get Doom running on it, and that has now happened.
Hackers Achieve the Inevitable: They Got Nintendo’s Alarmo to Play Doom
Hardware hackers prove they can make the Nintendo Alarmo play whatever they want on screen without ripping out its guts.
Can Nintendo’s Alarmo run Doom? You bet it can
What do John Deere tractors, Ikea smart bulbs, Lego bricks, and the MacBook Pro Touch Bar have in common? They can all run Doom, and naturally, so can Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo alarm clock. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled that off, but what I didn’t expect was that when it happened, it would be playable.
Random: Yes, Doom Is Now Playable On Nintendo Alarmo
"There's currently no audio support. To avoid the USB loader memory size restrictions, the .wad needs to be compressed and then uncompressed to external memory on boot. However, it's possible to load the shareware version of Doom entirely from USB, without modifying the Alarmo."
Yes, the Nintendo Alarmo can run Doom
Obviously, the Alarmo isn't the ideal or optimal way to play Doom (we've got an exceptional recently released Nightdive Studios-led remaster for that), but that isn't the point. Getting Doom to run on things it has no business running on has been a decades-long endeavor.
You can run Doom on Nintendo’s Alarmo clock
A few days after describing how it was possible to load custom firmware on a Nintendo Alarmo, GaryOderNichts shared a video showing Doom running on the alarm clock, and posted instructions to GitHub for anyone looking to do the same with their own device.
"It runs Doom better than a lot of PCs back in the day" – Nintendo's new alarm clock impresses fans
It was only a matter of time before this was going to happen. User GaryOderNichts got the famous shooter from the 90s running on an alarm clock. Not just any alarm clock, either. What is Nintendo Alarmo?
DOOM now runs on Alarmo: here’s how id Software’s classic FPS plays on Nintendo’s alarm clock
To everyone’s surprise, a few succeeded and added unexpected content to Nintendo’s peculiar item. A player and fan of id Software took the opportunity to do what any DOOM love

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