This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.
As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.
Not really electronic devices, but how about facades of high rise buildings. I remember playing pong in Berlin on the Blinkenlights installation[1], why not play doom on one of those insane new Chinese skyscrapers?
Now I want to see a doom UI that does speech-to-mouse, so you shout "turn left!", "move forward!", "fire!", etc, into a telephone handset to run the game.
Reminds me of a 90's gameshow back here in the UK, Nightmare. One player would be blindfolded whilst the other team member tried to guide them around a grid avoiding being captured.. "Left, no, my left, no I mean your left, no!!!"|
Well, it was still more "on" the pregnancy test than "on" the rotary phone - in this case, the phone is just a (really really bad) controller, Doom is still running on whatever the phone is connected to.
The part about bluetooth is all too relatable.
I'm wondering if there is some other way to do wireless communication that is much less annoying to set up?
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A few years back, I built TeleDoom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack hackathon (http://tadhack.com/).
This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot
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Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.
As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.
When describing playing a game in Serbian we use "on a controller" instead of "with a controller". It may be the same in Lithuanian.
Edit: I was also thinking about the Favicon, but this has been done already: https://github.com/VidFerris/FaviconDoom
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
“Beat that!”
Pure poetry.
BESM-6 mainframe (if there’s any alive still)
Drilling control systems
Medical ultrasound scanners
Screenless, but… a 3D-printed level with remotely controlled cockroaches.
(I’m looking forward to “challenge accepted” comments except for the last two ones)
Also https://www.voicebot.net/ or https://voiceattack.com/ is what you might want, from a quick google. Add an rj11 to 3.5mm connection, hey presto ;)
Also, Frotz has been ported to more devices than Doom.
Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.
https://www.tannr.com/2023/08/14/64x64-led-matrix-doom/
When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck!
Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…