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A 19-Year-Old Got DOOM Running On A McDonalds Cash Register
You think your gaming rig is impressive? Not anymore. Meet Ryan Edgar, a 19-year-old who has the wonderful honour of playing DOOM … on a Maccas register. The key question with any piece of technology is, of course, whether it can run DOOM. Edgar had the chance to answer this question recently...
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Talking to Kotaku Australia over DM, Edgar explained that he got DOOM going by copying ZDOOM onto a USB. " downloaded ZDOOM (Doom XP) on it using my personal computer, plugged it into the USB in the cash register and ran it through there with auto run," Edgar said.
Using a USB splitter, Edgar was able to get a mouse and keyboard working, the result of which you can see below.
"I was able to run explorer.exe by doing CTRL ALT DEL to get to Task Manager but there was some weird encryption on it," he said. He wasn't sure about the precise specs of the Maccas terminal, although its been previously reported that Maccas built their own point-of-sale software called PC POS. The original version was built for MS-DOS, but an updated version (New-POS) was released for Windows XP Pro.
I asked Edgar what he planned on doing with the terminal now that he'd gotten DOOM working. "I might even just use it as my second computer," he suggested, adding that he'll try and get Sonic Adventure 2 working on it before too long.
