Some crazy dude has ported Doom to the iPod. Of course you first have to install Linux to run it. The controls are clunky and the framerate is probably shitty but this is a really cool hack nontheless.
Entries Tagged as 'Apple'
Doom Ported To iPod
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets, Video Games
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Mighty Mouse Is On Its Way
August 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
It seems that our friends at Apple have come up with something new. They have released the Mighty Mouse: Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive [...]
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Apple Missing Opportunity With Switching To Intel
July 27th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Apple, Intel
The Tech Zone has an interesting editorial on how Apple is missing a huge opportunity by limiting OSX to Apple PCs: I heard a rumor last week that Apple would announce they are switching to Intel chips. My first thought is that I hoped that Steve Job’s success selling iTunes to the other 95% of [...]
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Why Is Apple Going To Switch To Intel?
July 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, IBM, Intel
There’s a great opinion piece on Ars Technica which reveals why Apple is switching to Intel: I’ve worked with Apple Authored by: overshoot on Sunday, June 12 2005 @ 08:56 PM EDT and I can tell you, there’s a very good chance that they outsmarted themselves into a “no bid” response from IBM. Part of [...]
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Steve Jobs Tells Graduating Students How It Is
June 14th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Apple, Humor
Steve Jobs held an interesting graduation speech to this years graduating class of Stanford University. In it he proclaimed that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made because it forced him to be innovative: PALO ALTO, California — Steve Jobs told Stanford University graduates Sunday that dropping out of [...]
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Apple to switch from IBM to Intel :-(
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
In some shocking news Apple has decided to stop using IBM powerPC chips, and wants to switch over to Intel in the future: Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans to move lower-end computers such as the [...]
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Play Videos On Your iPod!
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Looks like the iPodLinux have done what Apple couldn’t (or doesn’t want to) do. They’ve added video support to the iPod. The video player from the iPodLinux project will do 24-bit, uncompressed AVI files at iPod-native screen resolution only. You can download the binaries and the test video via the Read link. Demonstration video can [...]
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Apple’s G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux
June 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware, IBM, Intel
Anandtech has written a piece comparing the G5 to x86 architecture (and OSX to Linux) purely on a performance basis. Their results are interesting, but not really suprising: The G5 is a gigantic improvement over the previous CPU in the PowerMac, the G4e. The G5 is one of the most superscalar CPUs ever, and has [...]
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Apple To Release Tablet PC?
May 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Hardware
Looks like Apple’s gonna make a Tablet PC: Apple Computer was granted a patent for an enigmatically titled “Electronic device” Tuesday, May 10th, 2005. Illustrations for the device clearly indicate it to be a tablet-style Macintosh, and patent filings specifically compare it to the “HP Compaq Tablet PC” and several other tablet machines. The patent [...]
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A Brief History Of The GUI
May 5th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Computers In General, Cool Geeky Stuff, Linux, Microsoft
Ars Technica has written a fascinating brief history of the GUI. Excerpt: The history of the development of the graphical user interface is a long and complicated tale. While it is easy to find individuals like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay who made great contributions to advancing the state of the art, the truth of [...]
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