Doom runs on PineBuds Pro earbuds and is playable remotely in a browser

Pcgamer reports that Sydney-based web developer Arin Sarkisian has ported Doom to a pair of PineBuds Pro earbuds and made the game playable remotely in a browser on his own pair.

Sarkisian’s site says the PineBuds Pro are "the only earbuds with open source firmware." The site notes he "cranked [the CPU] up to 300mhz and disabled low power mode," which provided "more than enough" processing power to run the game, albeit at around 18 fps. Doom also required memory optimisations so it could run within the buds' limits, and while the earbuds can only hold 4 MB of data (the site says Doom is just a bit larger than that), a 1.7 MB Squashware WAD is small enough to fit.

The site lays out the hardware and software tweaks Sarkisian used for the demonstration on his own PineBuds Pro; the article focuses on that demonstration and does not state whether the build or remote-play setup is being broadly distributed.

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Tech, Arin Sarkisian, Doom, Squashware Wad, Sydney