Doom in an Ikea light bulb
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Someone has managed to run DOOM on a smart LED light bulb. It has a Cortex M33 at 80MHz with 108Kb of RAM. Apart from the challenge of having to reduce the game to fit into that memory, a screen and a button panel had to be added to the bulb.
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I love these achievements. The processor seems powerful, I'm not sure if equivalent to a 486 at 66mhz but it certainly doesn't look like it will be lacking. On the other hand, the fact that they managed to run it with so little ram is quite an achievement. In the article they say that the version for game boy advance consumes only 384kb which is already quite impressive. I think for PC it required 4mb of ram. By the way, it seems that Ikea is pushing to remove all the material, for example, the video can no longer be seen. The truth is that from a security point of view, it leaves the light bulb in a very bad place, I also don't understand why it needs such powerful hardware to do something as simple as turning on and off. With a basic microcontroller it would have been enough.
