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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrociousHow does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound?
How does one frame per eight-and-a-half hours sound?
Image credit:Lauren “Ren” Ramlan
Image credit:Lauren “Ren” Ramlan
Is there any greater scientific endeavour than the unending quest to getDoomto run on everything? Fromteletexttopregnancy teststotractorstoliteral rat brains in a jar, every time you think that we’ve exhausted the possibilities, someone finds a new way to play theseminal 30-year-old shooteron something new.
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Enter our latest contender for the weirdest/most ingenious way to play Doom yet: using bacteria found in the gut. Specifically, a display made of E. coli bacteria.
Running Doom on cells?Watch on YouTube
Running Doom on cells?
If you’re wondering what that means in reality for trying to play Doom using a bunch of gut bacteria - if you happen to have some lying around - Ramlan helpfully did the maths. If the average playthrough of Doom takes around five hours and the original game runs at 35 frames per second (its capped maximum), the cell display would therefore take 599 years to play Doom from start to finish.
So there you have it: you can theoretically play Doom (or at least display it) using gut bacteria, but the performance is atrocious to say the least. Maybe stick to playing on your calculator for now.
