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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

The picture isn't great, but I'll bet the framerate is amazing!

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But can you run DOOM on it?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you can't, it's probably because no one's tried yet. (30x30 display's pretty small, though, so I don't know how playable it would be.)

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doom can run on a TI-83+, so I'm sure we can resize it a bit to run on the mouse. I know it's hard right now, what with all the wars and all, but have some faith in humanity!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

64 x 96 is a hella improvement on 30 x 30. :)

Very true. But not impossible

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back in the day scanners were not the table model that is obsolete today but were drum scanners or hand scanners of which the latter was a hammerhead mouse with a horizontal optical sensor and regular computer mice used balls for tracking.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/thunderscan-the-wild-1980s-product-that-turned-a-printer-into-a-scanner/