Doom on a Commercial Kitchen Appliance

I previously explored a small DOS-based computer designed to run the display system in commercial kitchens and restaurants. You told me to run Doom on it, so let's do exactly that.

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[ThisDoesNotCompute]

Jump to 20:39 to skip past all my blathering. You're welcome.

[KOFDATA]

How spicy would you like your chicken?

I'm Too Young To Die
Hey, Not Too Rough
Hurt Me Plenty
Ultra-Violence
Nightmare!

[Zanthum]

"I want to get this to be a softmod."
Ahh so you want this to become the new tradition when fast food employees know they are about to be fired: start playing doom on the order screens, get fired, walk away with the manager trying to figure out how to get the system back to normal

[bugiroff]

I'm a contractor that installs these things all the time, so this is good info to have! These things communicate serially via RJ-12 connections with controller PCs. I think we need to see if we can get a network going for some Quake action!

[TomWishaupt]

The version string at 8:28 reveals some guy named Andrew compiled the BIOS on his MacBook Pro back in 2015. The BSOD error 0x7B means a missing storage driver. (Yes, I too wonder why I remember BSOD stopcodes.)

[clifffiftytwo]

I have ZERO time to fool with all this stuff. That's why I just ordered TWO of them. Thank you very much. #thisdoesnotcompute

[und]

This is a very important accomplishment to society.

[philevans]

SeaBIOS is very commonly used with open source virtualisation platforms like KVM, Xen etc. for the VMs' BIOSes

[Yrouel]

In the tweet thread the guy mentions that he used nlite to slipstream the drivers into a custom xp image so that's likely the step you're missing

[RetailArchaeology]

I knew it! I thoroughly enjoyed this 😁

[andythedishwasher]

As someone in the process of re-skilling into tech from the kitchen life, this brought me immense gratification and satisfaction.

[Madness]

Y'know, I kept thinkin', "it would be perfect for runnin' BurgerTime!" :D

[ColinJK]

The fact that someone was able to get Windows XP running on one of these OAsys iPAD devices is impressive

[littlepeon]

XDOS was written by a computer bios technician Thierry Giron. He at one time worked for the Phoenix Technologies corporation, that was bought by Award bios corporation. It is small in size, written entirely in assembler, and not real-time in the sense that it does not provide a way to specify priorities for codepaths or guarantee delivery of service in a specified amount of time. It has no scheduler other than the normal "process scheduler" of MS-DOS. (google search info from:

[gumbyx]

You went a lot farther with this than I thought you would.

[ConstanceJill]

Considering it's like a Pentium equivalent, I'm not surprised that it can run Doom. Back when I was a teen, I remember playing Doom II on one of the Compaq DeskPro 486 at my father's workplace. IIRC it had a 50 MHz 80486 CPU, 2 MB of RAM, and most likely a minimalistic integrated graphics chip :)

[zoehemsleypoole]

As a starbucks barista who uses one of these everyday, this is giving me some ideas for slow days...

[leap_]

SeaBIOS is the default BIOS QEMU uses for x86 and x86_64 emulation and also the most common option for Coreboot payloads, which this device also uses.

[thedungeondelver]

You can get a USB sound adapter; I think there's a way to get those working under DOS but don't quote me...

[theshadowman]

Why is this episode so much fun ? I am geeking out.