We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]

Article

• Doom ported to an Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS typesetter from the 1980s
• Required custom video output hardware since the machine has none
• Part of an ongoing series exploring the hidden capabilities of old RIP machines

Discussion

• Commenters note RIP machines were surprisingly powerful for their era (SGI O2 used as a RIP)
• One disappointed it didn’t print frames as a flipbook instead
• ‘Looks about as smooth as my 25MHz 386’ — accurate benchmark
• Obligatory ‘now do Crysis’

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