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Im wondering what games beside doom and classic arcade games like pong, can run on any sort of device and what the limitations are? everyone says will it run doom? but what others games have the same support doom has?

Im not sure if this post goes here but ill start here.

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[–] rgalex@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Another World. It's impressive how it's done, the game is programmed in a custom bytecode, and runs on an interpreter for the game. Porting the game to other platforms just requiere implementing the interpreter.

That allowed the game to be ported even to GBA.

There is a blog post that explains everything about it, and it's super interesting.

https://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

Attack of the PETSCII Robots. Been ported to a ridiculous number of retro computers.

[–] linrilang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s a fun question. I’d also add Snake to the list — it’s been recreated on calculators, old Nokia phones, smart fridges, and even in Excel. It’s probably one of the most reimplemented games ever. Not as “epic” as Doom, but definitely just as portable!

[–] Clepsydrae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It may look like Tetris, but due to international copyright law, it isn't.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

There are three Tetris versions that are all pretty good and very easy to emulate: The GB version which came with every device, the NES version and PICO-8.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nethack. I played it on an Amiga, PC, Mac (ppc), Raspberry pi, Android, Linux.

[–] ampy@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

I was disappointed to find out NetHack isn't on the Apple IIe. I'm not sure if it's possible though

[–] nous@programming.dev 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't think any game has the same support doom has. Doom has become a benchmark of sorts so gets ported to the strangest of places. Not normally places you would bother to port any game. It is done for the challenge of the port rather than any practical reason.

There are tonnes of games that could run in the same places as doom, many could run in far more places. But doom is complex enough to be an interesting challenge while being simple enough to run on very limited hardware. And has been open sourced while being a classic icon which makes it attractive to be a benchmark for getting to run in the weirdest of places.

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The architecture of Doom was specifically designed for portability. If you’d like to learn more, check out this video. For those that don’t know, tl;dr, the game’s structure is compartmentalized with specific connections (interfaces). The game logic runs separate of engine logic. If you write the specific engine hookups, the game logic should then run. Also math & clever level design implementation.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Solitaire, 2048, Chess, Zork

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Came here to write Zork.

[–] poorejustyn@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My understanding is that Doom can run on any device because it is written in C. So any game written in C could be compiled to run on your target device.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

There is way, way more to it than that.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any laptop made in the last decade will run basically everything from the GBA back to the Atari 2600.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also DOS, PS1, probably at least some PSP and maybe N64.

[–] Witziger_Waschbaer@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I doubt you could find a laptop made in or after 2015 that won't run N64.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

This is how I'm finding out 2015 was a decade ago. I am shocked and appaled.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hell, I was playing N64 on the school computers in 2008.

[–] duchess@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Conker‘s Bad Fur Day ran on a Pentium D, which was a doubled Pentium 4 and the emulator didn’t use the second core.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I vote we try it with a bunch of old point and click adventure games like Monkey Island or any other that have simplistic enough graphics and gameplay. Couldn't tell you how to do it because I don't know what code they run and how inefficient it could be by the standards at the time, but I feel like a lot of old point and click games could probably run just fine on a lot of modern devices that aren't computers, if given a Doom level community support.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Already done!

Actually one of the more popular things to do with a hacked Wii back in the day.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Definitely heard of it. Had no idea what it was for. Good to know, I guess.

[–] CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Somewhat the opposite, but can it run Crysis?

[–] BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I installed crysis not too long ago to fire it up on max settings. Past me didnt have a machine that could run it when it came out. Uninstalled right after. Justification for better employment.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Tic-Tac-Toe.

Edit: I remember that were a version of pac-man that was like 32x32 pixels.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Snake would also fall under that category

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Probably Breakout as well.

[–] afaix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I remember seeing a version of snake that runs on a car dashboard as an easter egg (like, literal dashboard, tiny screen where the gas milage is shown)

[–] BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We know Tic-Tac-Toe runs on really old government command and control systems. It will even support the game realizing the only win is to not play.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about a nice game of chess?

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 1 day ago

Later. Right now lets play Global Thermonuclear War.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Any sort of device? Well, to run a game, at a minimum there must be some kind of input and output, but not necessarily any storage. I think the one that could run on the most would be one that requires only one button for input, and one LED for output, that just tests your reflexes. It would have to read out your time by counting out flashes. You could also have a Simon-like game, with pattern memorization.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rollercoaster Tycoon and RCT2 should work well on most machines. They are smallish games and written in assembly.

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I feel like that would make them much harder to get running on different things. No compiled code means you would have to rewrite the whole game for different instruction sets. Very difficult for anything that isn't x86.