Not quite
Unfortunately it's a/ not playing Doom, it's just showing a video of Doom, and b/ it's not 'on' a pregnancy tester, it's just encased in one. They've added additional hardware in to achieve it.
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Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 14:29,
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Is it even with the pregnancy test's original LCD display?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 14:35,
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Nah, they won't use a bitmapped LCD display, just a much cheapet custom LCD that only displays the required graphics,
like an old Game & Watch, e.g. "NOT", "PREGNANT" and maybe indicators for "test in progress" and "low battery".
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 15:38,
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That's not what the linked tweet says. Or shows.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 14:39,
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You are wrong.
Firstly, the tech inside an electronic pregnancy tester includes "a "surprisingly complicated chip, more powerful than the CPU used in the original IBM PC."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54025997
And secondly, it actually says in the Twitter post it was just playing a video before, but now it is the actual game playing.
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Varmint, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 14:45,
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You're obviously more familiar with pregnancy testers than me.
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Varmint, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 15:10,
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Isn't is just a scam?
Like, all the computer does is figure out if one of the old paper tests has changed colour.
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I think the argument in favour of them is
it takes the guesswork out of trying to work out if there's a line or not.
Peeing on a computer and then immediately throwing it away does seem like a terrible waste, especially as these devices are going to end up in landfill and the e-waste isn't going to be put out with the recycling.
But then removing the lcd and fitting an oled instead and using it as a display also seems to slightly misrepresent the amount of tech in there
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LP, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 16:17,
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They used to be a lot more complicated.
I only barely remember now, but when I qualified as a pharmacist, there weren't cheap mass-produced pregnancy tests.
The lady in question would have to bring in a urine sample, then you'd have to mix it with two different reagents in sequence on a glass surface, and then try to work out how fluorescent it was it determine the result of the test. Then write the result on a piece of paper and give it to her in an envelope, keeping your tone of voice entirely neutral (because you can never assume that you know which result they want, and even implied congratulations/commiserations might be horribly misplaced).
And that was only in 1998. You young people don't know if you were going to have been born.
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The most basic of modern microcontrollers are more powerful than early home computers
are a fraction of the size and use a fraction of the power.
Edit: but not powerful enough to play Doom...
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 15:42,
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You are wrong
Neither the CPU nor the display being used is original to the pregnancy tester, the only thing from the original tester is the case
twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453805057896448
It's a fun project, but it's not /quite/ "doom running on a pregnancy tester"
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LP, Tue 8 Sep 2020, 16:26,
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