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Posted by arin-s 1/25/2026

Doom has been ported to an earbud(doombuds.com)
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WXLCKNO 1/25/2026|
A few more years and some more ram on these earbuds and we'll be able to run some nice local earbud kubernetes clusters
arin-s 1/25/2026||
The standalone viewer (connected directly to the earbuds) also works on mobile: https://files.catbox.moe/pdvphj.mp4

No touch controls though, it just plays the intro loop

tqi 1/26/2026||
There's gotta be a Moore's law corollary for "Doom ported to [blank]" milestones. I wonder where this all ends? Doom ported to a mechanical pencil! Doom ported to a clipper card! To a lightbulb??
utopcell 1/26/2026|
It all ends with it is ported to a paperclip machine [1].

[1] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

JonathanFly 1/26/2026||
Is there no way to play Doom with just the earbuds? There's a mod that adds audio cues to make Doom playable for the blind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtoAo__2kYo

Adding high quality binaural audio to Doom would make this even more viable. Earbuds have accelerometers which could also be incorporated to add additional queues.

automatic6131 1/25/2026||
Do we have Doom on a USB-C plug microcontroller yet?
KellyCriterion 1/25/2026|
Disposable Vape CPU!
TheCraiggers 1/25/2026||
At first I thought you found a way to control/view the game acoustically and I was very curious how that worked.

But, this probably makes more sense.

wolvoleo 1/25/2026||
But can it run crysis?
guerrilla 1/25/2026||
Awesome advertising for the Pinebunds Pro. No chance the Fairbuds can do this? I don't know much about them.

Also, with DOOM running on all these things now, is it still impossible to get it to run well on a 386?

theragra 1/26/2026|
I think there was a port that was much less demanding, and likely suitable for 386, but needs to be backported to x86
anthk 1/25/2026|
It's possible to run Zork I-III Frotz under a pen, some FPGA and even interpreting a PostScript file. Even the Game Boy, the C64, MSX... So, Doom is not the most ported game ever.
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