The impressiveness of this overcomes the disappointment that it wasn't some actual mass-produced ornament that happened to have a CPU powerful enough to run Doom ;)
Does anyone have experience with Tinycircuits products? My 9-year-old daughter wants the TV and arcade for Christmas.
How hackable are they? I'm afraid it's just going to become a toy she plays with for a day and gets bored.
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Oh, also since this is a Doom post, I'll selfishly mention that I always wish these ported-Doom-to-hardward-x projects would demo using the Ultimate Simpsons Doom 2 mod that I helped publish.
https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimate_Simpsons_Doom
Yeah, I'd love the little ornament as is and would probably buy one, but the best "it runs Doom" are when it's run on something clearly not designed for it (a printer, etc).
Agreed on the “it runs Doom”, but it could be great as a “run apps from the community” where it’s super easy to share and install code (community directory and an install script that can select them, for example).
Just ideas. This thing looks super cool and runs surprisingly well. Makes me want to see it do more...
If anyone else is curious what’s inside… Article says this is a Game Boy Advance port running on an ESP32 dev kit with an upgraded flash chip. Speaker is connected to a GPIO and display is using the serial line.
I always assumed this format was a derivative of Churchil's saying ("I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best"). Looked it up and apparently it has a distinct source of its own.
Not that far away from the TV commercials of some major hardware store running in this season and advertizing chain-saws, drills, and lawn-mowers nicely wrapped under the Xmas tree...
As a fellow Dutchman I hate how it takes literally just two seconds to hear that the author is Dutch as well just by the accent nearly all of us English speaking Dutch suffer from (conversely he could do the same with my pronunciation of English).
It's like a national shibboleth as impossible to get rid of as herpes.
Don't be so hard on him (and your fellow compatriotes). His english is perfectly fine.
Wouldn't it be weirder if he had no perceptible accent whatsoever?
I find it quite refreshing to be able to tell where someone is from, judging from their accent alone. When I was a kid, growing up in a rather rural area, I could tell with an accuracy of about 20km which area around my hometown someone I just met was from, just from by the fine differences in their accent. But in fact very few people like being identified like that.
I get it, breach of privacy and all that... but on the other hand, is it so bad to know where someone is from, when having a conversation with them
The real problem is of course the biases in people's head... "dutch people are such and such", and so on. I say we should fight the biases, not the fact that one's geographical origin can be guessed.
Not Freak_NL, but in my experience the only people actually good at recognizing the Dutch accent are Dutch people themselves (unless the accent is really bad). So in practice, it's more of a quirk than something practically bad.
I'm sorry your version didn't get any votes or comments. Best time to post on HN is around (say) 15:00 CET, so that Europeans will see it in the afternoon and Americans can see it with their morning coffee.
Original comment author posted this around that time. I would be surprised that if being late by 1-2h makes post's success so much worse?
EDIT: On similar note - I wonder how HN's duplicate post detection works? If post does not reach some amount of upvotes, then it does not count in the duplicate index?
A lot of it is dumb luck. HN gets a lot of posts, most which see little to no activity. A few early upvotes seem to make all the difference in what eventually surfaces and what doesn't.
