I Hacked a $10 Calculator to Run Doom Eternal

Answering the age-old question of how much performance can we get out of a hacked $10 calculator.

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[TakiUdon]

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-The stuttering that I found in NES (and a few other places) was caused by some Wi-Fi errors. I disabled Wi-Fi and the emulation is smooth af now.
-For people that are wondering, I've only ever seen this for sale in China and I have no idea how you can buy one outside of China. Prices went up after a lot of people started buying this for the memes. The person I bought this from sells this for $10-$20.

[O]

the fact that a calculator with this few buttons has a full 1gb of ram, colour touch screen and android is wild to me

[drummerlinn]

When you said “10 $ calculator”, I wasn’t expecting anything close to a touch screen calculator.
I didn’t even know those existed honestly.

[KiddBuu_]

I love how below 60 is considered bad performance, meanwhile back in 2008-2012 I was gleefully enjoying playing DS emulators at what felt like 10-20 fps on my mother’s old laptop.

[JimmyZeng]

$10 android device, what a time we're living in.

[Dadum-bass]

"But can it run Doom?" Used to be more then a meme. It was a challenge.

Throwing games onto an android system is a thumbs up, but relatively simple. . . But playing Doom on an ATM or an Ultrasound machine? Using 3 toasters as input? Those were the feats that separated script kiddies from hackers.

[iSupermanCKi]

Imagine if the SD card slot and the number keys worked. This would be perfect for the kid sitting in the back of the class. 😂

[themchannel]

All memes aside, this is truly impressive, so awesome to see how far we've come along in the tech/gaming world. Awesome video man.

[TheHyperGamerVideos]

I feel like a calculator running android is like a 2 dollar rechargable battery being recharged by a nuclear reactor.

[JerziTBoss]

I think ending at Doom 1 or 2 would fulfill the "Can it run Doom meme"... Running Doom 3 and Ethernal on it just pushing it to the extreme because why the hell not

[sokion]

This is was best random video I came across this year. Thanks Taki.

[DoubleDragon]

Imagine in high school having a android powered calculator

[WakoDoodle]

Imagine going back in time to the late 80's, early 90's and playing this on the bus with everyone using their tiger electronic handheld.
They ask, "how much did that cost?!" and you say "it's just a $10 calculator I hacked".

You'd be labelled as some kind electronic god forever!

[alZiiHardstylez]

This might be the first time I genuinely thought "...back in my day"

[R.B.]

This is how you review a calculator, but if it can't emulate PS1 smoothly then idk if it's the one for me.

[knucklestheechidna]

I feel like it's pretty insane that back in the day me and my friends used to be jealous of my friend who had rich parents because he could run Doom 3 on the highest settings when it first came out. Now it's running on a damn calculator I feel pretty old.

[eryonzane]

These are not 10 dollars. Aliexpress sells them for 70

[medleysa]

I can’t imagine that using these specs and loading Android on this was the cheap option for this company. Why does this exist?

[SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

a Smartphone that has a *Calculator* ❌
a Calculator that has a *Smartphone* ✔️

[MrMiaw]

This seems like a great gift for a kid. I would have loved to have this when I was 5 (presuming that the menus are easy to navigate)