Palm Pre runs Doom, smartphone-loving space marines rejoice

If you were holding off on buying a Pre until it had some great games, start warming up that credit card. We knew homebrewers were already at work and one of those, a bloke who goes by the name Sargun, has managed to get the iconic Doom running on the phone -- or the open-source PRDoom, anyway, which is close enough for us. Sargun re-built the game to use the DirectFB graphics library to pipe all the two-barreled action to the Pre's framebuffer, and said getting the whole thing up and running was "actually fairly trivial." Your mileage may vary depending on your compiler skills, but with any luck someone will host up some binaries to save us all the trouble. Video proof of this great achievement after the break.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2009 9:37AM]

Hello Mr. Yellow Cam

[aoi tsuki Posted Jun 12th 2009 10:03AM]

Quick, somebody get it to run Linux and oh wait...

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2009 10:42AM]

That's one way to get rid of the returned devices, I guess.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2009 12:04PM]

greg, do you need friends that bad? real friends are priceless... for everything else, there's Mastercard®.

[SoCoolCurt Posted Jun 12th 2009 12:30PM]

dude would you stop spamming? we don't do that here man, take it somewhere else, this is a stand up blog.

[cchaser78 Posted Jun 12th 2009 2:10PM]

I am no expert, but doesn't selling a linux device force you to release the code? Linux's GPL license?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 12th 2009 3:36PM]

The Pre's layout is garbage for gaming. The keyboard is way too small and isn't conducive to landscape game play.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2009 3:57AM]

you are correct. this is why i use my Xbox for games, not my cell phone.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2009 7:37AM]

Meh... Forget Doom, Quake has been running on the N95 for 2 years.