Running Doom on a Calculator! TI-83 Plus Games Tutorial

Ever wanted to play first-person shooters on a monochrome graphing calculator screen? Well now you can! Or rather, you could for over a decade but I'm just now making a video on how to, ha.

● Links to the sites and resources used:
TI-Connect Graph Link Software

TI-83+ v1.19 OS upgrade

MirageOS

Ion

zDoom

zTetris

Jezzball

Super Mario

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● Music used in order of appearance:
"Doom - E1M1," "Tuned In 2," "Not That Serious 1"

[Blake_Stone]

1993: "But will it run DOOM?"
2007: "But will it run Crysis?"

2017: "But will it run DOOM?"

[robertadamsx]

Doom on a calculator=solving problems with violence.

[christopherspencer]

I remember using that calculator in grade 10 math near the turn of the Millenium. It blew my mind when my friend borrowed it one night to install all these games on it, it was like having a Gameboy that you were "allowed to use in class". I did not do well in Math that year

[mr_indie_fan]

Fun fact: there are indie developers dedicated to making *NEW* games for ti-84 calculators, they are few and far between but they exist.

[holycrapchris]

You can overclock the TI-83 up to 15MHz. Doom should run better then (though the graphics will still be laggy due to the screen).

[par]

2017:Playing doom on calculator.


2069:Playing gta 5 on calculator

[akitsuna]

This, my friend, is why I failed maths class back in the days.

[TheAaronRodgersTao]

Love the schmaltzy jazz being played in the background. I’m a sax player and these kinds of studio recordings are my bread and butter. Thanks for helping me continue to work.

[Radihed]

I've used my TI84 to cheat on the exam by putting an Excel sheet on it that would solve complex, multi-step problems. Fun times.

[BioClone]

-Teacher... can we use the calculator for this exam?
- Mmm yes, its a long one
-Nice!
(Doom soundtrack starts playing)

[jollyrogers]

Many people don't know that the original version of DOOM was released on an abacus.

[JadenOP]

Teacher: Use a calculator to solve your problem

My Brain: Use the calculator to defeat the boss

[The_Moe_Szyslak_Exp_feat_Homer]

I'm watching this on my calculator.

[professorgruff]

My math teacher caught me and asked if he could have a turn

I didn’t think this shitty joke would get so much traction.

[FCWW]

“Obviously, it doesn’t have any sound… because it’s…. A calculator.”

[obligedtoregobligedtoreg]

So hyped for the upcoming Skyrim calculator edition

[howdyhamster]

I remember in middle school when we were first expected to have one of these calculators. You could borrow a TI-82 from the school, but many of the kids brought their own TI-83. Lots of games being passed around between those with the same model. Except for me - my dear mother found a TI-85 on ebay for $30 and believed she was getting a great deal, since it's a bigger number, it has to be a newer model! Well it wasn't because the TI naming scheme is weird, and I used that thing all through high school and up to college.

I must say it got me into coding though. Whenever there was a program needed for the class, while everyone was copying it between themselves, I was sitting there looking at the TI-BASIC code on a 82 or 83 trying to frantically rewrite it into the 85's dialect.

[sdani.]

Doom was released 3 years before this calculator

[internetuser]

Fun fact: these calculators do make noise! If you have a radio, you can tune it to a station without a signal. Then if you put the calculator near the radio, it will make VERY calculating noises as it runs programs. IIRC, there are some programs written in Assembly that take advantage of this odd quirk to actually play sound effects and music.

[MrGotk]

Teacher:what are you doing on the calculator?
kid:playing doom