[reerdna]

As do I. We had a 286 which this would easily outperform. It could probably run DOOM (with dithering) quite well if someone put their mind to it.

[Narishma]

I doubt it. It only has 384 KB of RAM.

[kragen]

Apparently the original Doom required 4 MiB of RAM https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/a4yi5t/original_doo... but I'm pretty sure there have been ports to platforms that had less.

[moring]

Most of that is static data, so if stored unpacked, a larger flash should be sufficient to make the game need very little RAM. Unfortunately, if I read it correctly, this one only has 1MB of flash. (oh: but SD card. That could work!)

[kragen]

thanks! these are good points!

however, if you have the sd card powered on all the time it will cut your battery life by about a factor of 30

[goosedragons]

Yeah, most of the 90s home console ports were to systems that had less than 4MB RAM. Jaguar, 3DO, PlayStation, SNES, 32X. The GBA also has less than 512KB RAM and a 16MHz ARM and had Doom and Doom II ports. Some cutbacks might be necessary but probably doable.

[kragen]

Also none of those systems had Flash, and they were all a lot slower, requiring more time/space tradeoffs.

[pflanze]

The RP2040 has 264 KiB of RAM. RP2040 Doom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527

PS. although, the RP2040 has 2 cores and programmable IO controllers, which IIRC were pretty needed to deal with the low memory (and sound). I don't know how this chip compares.

[pflanze]

Also, as I just realized, the RP2040 Doom author is also the Pico SDK (lead?) developer at Raspberry Pi Ltd.[1], which probably contributed as much to the success as the two cores and their PIO controllers.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/doom-comes-to-raspberry-pi-...

[unxdfa]

You could build a ray casting engine, textures and maps that would fit in that easily. It might not be doom but something similar is possible.

[initramfs]

you can get one with 2MB of RAM now: https://ambiq.com/apollo4/