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Got a fun little video for ya! This one is just what it says on the tin: Doom running on a digital camera. Specifically a Kodak DC260 from 1998!

I've been meaning to do this ever since my "Doom on a Calculator" video blew up, but only got one of the required cameras earlier this year. Kept putting it off in favor of more involved projects, but with it being Thanksgiving week here I needed something simpler so this seemed like a good one.

Hope you enjoy, and have a good holiday for those of you that celebrate! Once I return from ingesting turkey and gravy with family and friends I'll be back to begin work on LGR Christmas 🎅

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Doom on a Kodak Digital Camera from 1998!

Ever wanted to play the original DOOM on your digital camera? I sure have! At least ever since I learned about Digita OS cameras like the Kodak DC260. Also plays MAME arcade games and MP3s, too! ● LGR links: https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Links to the software and source ports: https://web.archive.org/web/20010613100345/http://digita.mame.net:80/download.htm ● Music courtesy of: http://www.epidemicsound.com #LGR #DOOM #Cameras

Comments

Anonymous

Happy Thanksgiving🦃

Carey Brown

Dood!! Nice! Also, Happy Thanksgiving!

Anonymous

Tonight, over the horizon to the East, a new star has risen. All the people rejoiced for the imminent return of... the Christmas Clone!

Johnathan Seymour

Time for Christmas clone. CHRISTMAS!.... christmas......

Anonymous

This is awesome. Not sure how they crammed a 66mhz PPC in that thing but wow. Happy Thanksgiving Clint!

Anonymous

Dude complains about the d-pad while playing Doom on a camera. Bless your heart

Anonymous

Neat! Love things like this. Also, Happy Thanksgiving, Dood.

Anonymous

That UI, comic sans? Lovely clip art. I miss when that style of UI was more prevalent.

Anonymous

First a calculator now this? That's incredible :)

Anonymous

Wow, I had a $1000 digital camera in 1997 and it was still using a floppy adapter and could only hold like 9 photos. What a difference a year makes.

LazyGameReviews

Indeed, I imagine going from something like the Sony FD Mavica to this thing was huge. Impressively forward-looking stuff.

LazyGameReviews

Yeah it's an awesome piece of late 90s miniaturization. Just four years prior and you'd need a desktop to do this, the decade was insane.

LazyGameReviews

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Akselmo

Well this was a nice birthday present! :D haha

John Bailey

For 1998 that's a LOT of processing power packed into a camera. Impressive that it works that well, considering it's only a 66 MHz chip. Out of curiosity, is that actually a TV, or is that one of the Sony PVM's?

LazyGameReviews

For real though! Even if it's a cut-down version of the CPU, it's bonkers what it can pull off in such a cramped footprint. And yep, that's a TV! A rather nice one though, one of the few of that size from that era with stereo speakers. KV-1380R.

Tim Coffey

That's awesome.

Anonymous

Dude, 66MHz and 8Mb of RAM? That's pretty beefy for a camera, but can it run Do... Oh, wait Thanks for the holiday treat!

Anonymous

I wish someone would develop an Instagram app for it. Though I'm afraid that much hipsterness might cause a black hole that destroys the world.

Anonymous

Way better than Amiga clones. Very impressive

Vlaphor

I love this kind of stuff. Doom has become a fancier "Hello World". I wonder if Minecraft is is the modern day equivalent of that. Also, speaking of Doom on things, I'm sure you've seen this image before, but I'm always happy to share it https://imgur.com/i0C0Xae

Michael Dragone

Fascinating! How do you even find out about these things? (And how come you don’t use the LGR remixed theme song anymore?)

Anonymous

Very neat. I remember seeing this back in the day and had totally forgotten about it. It plays it surprisingly well. I mean you can see the frame rate looks like it is somewhere around 15 FPS... (that's just a guess) which is certainly playable.

Anonymous

This is so great! I definitely want to try out the TI-83 Plus Doom port as well.

Terry Lee

Playing Pac-Man that slow is essentially if the game included a easy mode option!

Anonymous

Is it just me or is level 30 on Doom 2 on ultra violent a complete pain in the ass, wouldn't wanna try it on a camera.

Anonymous

The first camera review without shooting a picture. ;-) And I liked it. I am wondering if a program or a game could make use of the camera.

Mark

Enjoy the holidays, Clint!

Anonymous

Doom running on unexpected things and a cameo from Vaxeen 4U? YES! Thank you! :D

Alyxx the Rat

This is so pointless that I can't help but applaud the effort

Anonymous

I kinda faintly remember about stories of it back in the past - but I'd always thought it was some custom firmware or the likes. Not that those cameras ran a custom OS which allowed apps to be written for them. That's the coolest bit by far. And more than anything that early build of MAME certainly brought back memories of running it on my old 486 with a bunch of frameskipping!

Anonymous

I love that it runs so much better than the official GBA version - granted the specs of this camera are quite a bit beefier.

Anonymous

Running Doom on things that aren't made to run Doom. So oddly satisfying! lol Probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever played Doom on was a Sandisk Sansa MP3 player (with an oddly similar C250 model number) with a 1.4" 132x80 screen. It was barely playable but so cool at the same time.

LazyGameReviews

Ooh, that's one to keep in mind for a future video perhaps. I had an older model of the same range of MP3 players back in the day, but it only had a monochrome screen.

Anonymous

Clint, you may have seen this. https://youtu.be/NPWi5yJK3zo It seems DOOM runs on quite a few things, including Canon Pixma printers lol

Anonymous

You've got to cover the Deer Avenger games man!

Anonymous

Hahaha Doom on a digital camera - this is amazing!