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Play Doom on Your iPod!

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 6:25 PM - by

A major milestone in the iPod culture has been reached, as the iPodLinux Project has made it possible to play the classic 3D first person shooter Doom on an iPod photo (which is currently just called iPod).

Playing Doom on your iPod requires running podzilla on your iPod, though 4th generation color screen iPods are not (yet) actually supported by the iPodLinux Project. Such is the nature of an open source project where users are free to take whatever risks they wish, and there are images of the game being played.

Installing podzilla allows you to choose whether you want to boot your iPod up in Linux, or with Apple's own firmware so you can use your iPod normally each time you turn it on. (Note that iPodObserver has not yet verified this.)

Doom was released to the open source community long ago by id Software, the game's developer. Since then, it, along with Linux, has been ported to every conceivable device on which it might run.

You can find more information on the podzilla and Doom projects at the iPodLinux Web site.


Doom's opening screen on an iPod
(Photo is courtesy of the iPodLinux Project, where you can find several more images of the game)

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Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:58 pm

iPods are DOOMED.

RealityCheck.

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Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:05 pm

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iPods are DOOMED.

RealityCheck.

Who you're not.

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Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:19 pm

I don't want to play Doom on my 19" monitor. Why would anyone want to play it on a 2" monitor?

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Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:08 am

I've been running Linux on my iPod Photo 60GB for about a month. The booting info is correct (hold down the "back" button to boot into podzilla).

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Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:42 am

I find it hard to picture how you would control your player on an iPod. With only four directional buttons and a center (Fire?) button, how do you switch weapons, strafe, or open doors?

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