Thanks to a very cool gadget called a RAD Expansion Unit, I’m over here playing Doom on my Commodore 64 – something which should be totally impossible
Thanks to a very cool gadget called a RAD Expansion Unit, I’m over here playing Doom on my Commodore 64 – something which should be totally impossible
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Impossible? Tell that to my potato.
Don’t know anything about doom but I’m glad you are happy sir
This feels like an ad, but I’m glad you are enjoying it.
The Commodore 64 is a legendary computer from 1982 (still the best-selling desktop computer of all time!), and runs a MOS 6510 CPU at just over 1MHz, with only 64kb of RAM. With such minimal hardware stats, playing a fast-paced 3D game like Doom is essentially impossible (not counting some clever tech demos)… until now. The [RAD Expansion Unit](https://github.com/frntc/RAD) essentially lets the C64 offload certain tasks to the CPU of a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W, which is installed via the cartridge port on the C64. It’s a brilliant bit of hardware engineering, and it allows the C64 to do things way, *way* beyond its usual capabilities. Very fun!
Somebody let the AVGN know!
Buddy, you can play doom on almost everything that does have a micro processor/micro controller in it.
For doom, nothing is impossible.
Ok boomer
Impossible? people are running doom on pregnancy testers. If it has a display and a circuit board it can run doom.
Dude that’s awesome! I wish I still had a Commodore 64. The one I had years ago died on me.
That joystick just unlocked a core memory
where did you dig up that old fossil
LOAD”awesome”,8,1
lmfao “should be totally impossible” you can play DOOM on DOOM
Wasn’t there a straight port in 96