I Hacked a $10 Calculator to Run Doom Eternal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2023
- Answering the age-old question of how much performance can we get out of a hacked $10 calculator.
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-The stuttering that I found in NES (and a few other places) was caused by some Wi-Fi errors. I disabled Wi-Fi and the emulation is smooth af now.
-For people that are wondering, I've only ever seen this for sale in China and I have no idea how you can buy one outside of China. Prices went up after a lot of people started buying this for the memes. The person I bought this from sells this for $10-$20.
There's what looks like a micro usb port on the main board, did you try using that?
Can provide a link of where you purchased this, please?
Love it. I never seen calc with android before
Can't find this calculator anywhere online. Where can we buy it?
TI-83+ when? 😲
the fact that a calculator with this few buttons has a full 1gb of ram, colour touch screen and android is wild to me
I know I used to have the ones with the 7 segment display
Yeah the moment the anolog clock display didn't open up. And you were like just swipe down its Android. My brain fucking exploded. Like if it looked more like a Texas instruments calculator or some of the modern Casio ones I'd be a little less surprised but that looks like a good old-fashioned classic I built my first metal detector coil out of this calculator.
at $10 nevertheless!
@@maskedmelon580 that's kinda a steal like even if it's shit what kinda hardware can you get for 20 dollars?
Absolutely, Ti-89 hardware is a joke compared to this.
When you said “10 $ calculator”, I wasn’t expecting anything close to a touch screen calculator.
I didn’t even know those existed honestly.
that's crazy for 10 dollars
Ikr? The PCB alone costs more than that
Same💀
Me either, And I definitely didn't expect it to be capable of Android
@@paulandrew6867That's because they're actually about $70
I love how below 60 is considered bad performance, meanwhile back in 2008-2012 I was gleefully enjoying playing DS emulators at what felt like 10-20 fps on my mother’s old laptop.
Well it was like 20 years ago so I mean lol
@@frank.e.wildcatbasic math man cmon 20 years ago?
Key word "like" 20 years ago.
@@frank.e.wildcat yea it was *obviously* *actually* 12 to 16 years ago. well *actually* it was like 4,380 to 5,840 days ago. well *actuallly* it was like 105,120 to 140,160 hours ago. well *actually* it was like 6,307,200 to 8,409,600 minutes ago. well *actuually* it was like 378,432,000 to 504,576,000 seconds ago. well it was *aktually* 378,432,000 to 504,576,000,000 milliseconds ago (thats around 57 kph for you imperial basttrds). well tht's *actly* an infinite regression. basic math man cmon 20 years go?
60 is only bad performance by modern game standards. Lower fps is far less relevant on older games.
"But can it run Doom?" Used to be more then a meme. It was a challenge.
Throwing games onto an android system is a thumbs up, but relatively simple. . . But playing Doom on an ATM or an Ultrasound machine? Using 3 toasters as input? Those were the feats that separated script kiddies from hackers.
$10 android device, what a time we're living in.
I remember having had many fun "whats the cheapest phone you can find" competitions with some old college friends, and this clobbers every one of them.
@JimmyZeng, there used be a time when my Pentium 1 was never able to run Doom 3. And these days, we can play doom eternal on a $10 calculator.
@@StevoBortzLevel99 it would if it had a phone 😂
Good luck finding something like this for 10$. It isn't common and widely accessible.
@@ligametis what calculator is this? I’m interested in finding it if it’s still available
A calculator with 1GB RAM which runs an operating system which then runs a calculator app. I have never been revolted by a piece of technology before.
It makes me wonder how that was decided. The TI-calculators hold the market on low-powered LED screens. And it's probably easier to program an android app over some specialized machine.
It seems that it is just some old obsolete hardware that was repurposed
For 10$ it's not a bad deal.
Most likely for people who prefer physical calculators feel but wanted the modern implementations.
It's niche, but being recycled or outdated parts it's pretty cool to repurpose rather than being in a warehouse or trashed.
Not for people who need it
More like a novelty
Really nice to have
It would be cool to watch movies on one of these in class... a perfect disguise! Shii...you could put a library of study guides and text-book scans on one of these.
China technology for you
These are not 10 dollars. Aliexpress sells them for 70
Now $88 and out of stock
He found one for 10 🤷🏻♂️
@@rphntw1nNo🙋🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
@@rphntw1n He didn't. The PCB board is even more than that.
All memes aside, this is truly impressive, so awesome to see how far we've come along in the tech/gaming world. Awesome video man.
Bro you do realize that’s definitely not a ten dollar calculator
@@TristenGarcia-qd4q I might be late, but it is a 10$ dollar calculator. Just read the pinned comment and description and it explains that he got it from a different vendor. Also i found a article online specifying the vendor and I bought one.
Imagine if the SD card slot and the number keys worked. This would be perfect for the kid sitting in the back of the class. 😂
There's probably a way to make them work, but that's too much work for what started out as a meme video.
@@TakiUdon I (and I imagine others) would watch the crap out of that video. So maybe a consideration for future content :P
I would watch
Just imagine some kid looking up saying, "Is that BFG Division I hear!?"
Yes I would watch that video too, this calculator deserves the upgrade lol
This has to be the most over engineered calculator Ive ever seen... love it.
The low-price calculators use such simple processors that they need a buncha custom patching in them to give the correct numbers for many mathematical operations, there's lots of processor errata.Therefore having a standard consumer-level complex processor in them isn't as silly as it first seems, as you can run Java or something, which basically always gives out the same results for the same operations
This is the equivalent of putting a jet engine in a Model T.
@@Dessimat0r😊
@@hdofu Exactlly
The Juicero of calculators.
This is was best random video I came across this year. Thanks Taki.
This might be the first time I genuinely thought "...back in my day"
Bro you are officially a dad now
nah, this calculator is weird, we still use old Texas Instruments in class why the fuck would you need a touch screen on a calculator
@@abd-aljaleelidlibi5394bwo...how old aw u?
I feel like a calculator running android is like a 2 dollar rechargable battery being recharged by a nuclear reactor.
Your $2 rechargeable batteries probably are charged in part by a nuclear reactor.
@@WobblieSkellie Surprisingly not wrong ?
@@DoubleMonoLR there are more than 30 other countries that do and they account for more than half the world's population.
I think ending at Doom 1 or 2 would fulfill the "Can it run Doom meme"... Running Doom 3 and Ethernal on it just pushing it to the extreme because why the hell not
Yeah, like the videos about running Doom is just old Doom being involved. What about those 3D Doom games; Doom 3, Doom 2016, and Doom Eternal? Could they run on anything too, like on a calculator, if old Doom could do the same?
DoomSlayerGuy would be proud.
@@ArjunTheRageGuy Not yet. 2016 isn't even a decade old, and it requires a GPU. Technology will need to advance quite a bit before we can run it on a calculator or coffee maker.
@@seanewing204 At least someone would give it a try
Press “+” to rip and “=“ to tear until it is done
I had never played Doom as a kid because fps games made me a bit nauseous but the internet pressured me to try it. Finally did around 2019 and I’m so happy I gave in. Great game.
This seems like a great gift for a kid. I would have loved to have this when I was 5 (presuming that the menus are easy to navigate)
Imagine going back in time to the late 80's, early 90's and playing this on the bus with everyone using their tiger electronic handheld.
They ask, "how much did that cost?!" and you say "it's just a $10 calculator I hacked".
You'd be labelled as some kind electronic god forever!
Especially using hardware and software that doesn't exist for another 10-20 years. The FBI would probably be beating your door down.
If you got that in the 1980's they'd burn you alive for being a witch or something lol.
It's not worth only $10, it can be $10 because it's jsut socialized google tech and e-waste racket. That skips all those barrier of entry punitive money laundering layers that USA calls "capitalism", but does nothing but keep an arbitrary number of buying power in the hands of people so they stay desperate.
Yur little fnatasy is to go to Nigeria where a bottle of coke costs 10 cents, and laugh in the face of all the poors how everything YOU buy is like a !0 million modernist art piece. Infalted in price in order to keep your neighborhood too expensive for people with real jobs to survive in, because real jobs are paid salary for by Apple and Nestle.
AND YOU are the one bombing places, to keep people burning alive for this status quo.
@@deleted_handlethey wouldn't they had consoles back then
@[deleted] what kind of 80s are you living through, the witch trials???
Imagine in high school having a android powered calculator
I only had a portable PS1. and by portable I mean it was a PSX with a attached display and a giant battery attached that you got maybe 2 hours out of it.
@@ShootEmUpGood Sick! =D
Where my ti 89 homies at?
Yeah I'm old we had TI85s running Blackjack and felt like it was amazing
@@douglarsen4801 and snake!
I mean, the calculator didn't RUN doom eternal, it streamed it but... it ran doom 3 better than anyone would have expected from a 10$ calculator
This calculator costs $88 new, so good job picking it up for 10. Sadly, it's not a deal that's available to most people.
I feel like it's pretty insane that back in the day me and my friends used to be jealous of my friend who had rich parents because he could run Doom 3 on the highest settings when it first came out. Now it's running on a damn calculator I feel pretty old.
Waos
This is how you review a calculator, but if it can't emulate PS1 smoothly then idk if it's the one for me.
And for that reason, I'm out.
@@TakiUdon Barbara? Is that you?
@R.B.90 PCSX rearmed doesn't have the best performance on low end devices. Duckstation, or the Swanstation core on Retroarch could work better.
ITS A LOT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN $10..
Dude. Love your explanation about the hardware etc. subbed. ❤
I can’t imagine that using these specs and loading Android on this was the cheap option for this company. Why does this exist?
An unassuming $10 calculator, that could have all kinds of spyware for collecting data. That's where the profit comes from.
Probably Chinese, if you got stock left over of cheapo low end chips and screen, makes sense to throw together something like this jsut to get rid of it
My only guess is that those boards were meant for a different product and the owner had to sell them cheaply. Maybe they needed to free up their inventory, maybe the company failed.
@@bbloomfield6497I hope that you're wearing your tinfoil hat while watching this. You never know who's reading your... thoughts! 😂
@@bbloomfield6497 pretty sure this thing doesn't even come with wifi on by default
We really went from "Can you run Doom on a ti84 calculator?" to "Can you run Doom 3 on a calculator?". It's amazing what can be done with technology in 20+ years. Man, do I feel old in my late 20's.
Betcha this thing can run Morrowind on OpenMW
In a decade their will be guy playing doom 2016 on calculators 😂
i was soo upset when you found the numbers couldn't be bound. Awesome video!
Cool video 👍 looking forward to see more items!
what a time to be alive... I spent 100 dollars on a graphing calculator (ti-85) when I was in highschool - and now a 10 dollar calculator has a touch screen and can emulate games so graphing equations should not be an issue...
i think this calculator is also ariund 80-90 bucks
@@cricfizzer4498still. Most graphing calculators are more expensive and have worse specs😂
It does seem like a good idea to make a calculator with processors that are very cheap and get 1gb of ram and just get or make a advanced calculator app
i can't get enough of your content, it's that good!
I laughed at "Surprisingly ps1 is actually pretty bad on this calculator & now that I'm saying that out loud, it even seems stupid."
I am still surprised that even a cheap calculator is touch screen now. 😳
Forget the touch screen, it has a quad core processor and runs freaking ANDROID!
@@vmoca We're old to still be excited about these things.😂👍
I just bought one from Ali express and it only has an LCD writing pad at the side, no touch though
welcome to mass production in china, you have 100 years of catching up to do
So dumb.
Its not even that this calculator runs Android that surprises me (though it is surprising too), it's how open and not locked down it is
Almost like it was made for college undergraduates to cheat off of it
It’s international. Makes it easy for the feds to install spyware
they know what people wanna do with it lol
Chinese stuff was generally not restricted much with exception of the bigger brands that started surfacing more recently
That's because it doesn't have an Apple logo on it
This is what i should have been learning at school. Fascinating stuff.
1:42 "Not Bad For A Calculator"
That's when my Casio Portable Calculator became speechless... 🤣🤣
It sucks that those buttons didn't work as inputs. I would have loved to have this in highschool to play games on while in class, just like I did with my TI-86 graphing calculator.
Same here, but these days we also have mobile phones with far better performance. So it'd be kinda pointless.
@@thenonexistinghero You'd still be the coolest kid in class if you had one though
@@thenonexistingherodigital n**ism and modern hedonism isn’t the end all be all to life
@@thenonexistinghero Here in Venezuela phones are banned in schools so this could technically work.
This is an absolute steal for $10, very impressive honestly.
it's a lie.
8:34 imagine if your calculator was a Switch, trying to do math would be impossible with the keypad drifting.
You trying to charge someone and the calculator adds 8 zeros to the end 😵
Boss: "Ok, so we're thinking of making a budget calculator. How much RAM should it have?"
Engineer: "Yes."
The fact that this calculator has more processing power than most of NASA' computers during the Apollo 11 mission is insane
The fact that Apollo 11 occurred in '69 (54 yrs ago) should tell you that this is not insane.🤦♂
Considering our cellphones are like 100x more powerful than those old computers, it's not that insane to think a modern calculator is this much better
@EBoytfs the fact that you act like a complete ass hat when he's just just appreciating truly how far tech has come is baffling lmao. Just let the man appreciate technology and stop being a dick
they said this since the gameboy
Moon landing fake?
Anything is an emulator console if you're willing to tinker enough with it.
I would LOVE for this to become a series!
Yeah? Can you run Mario 64 on a pineapple?
That's why I still love the Ps Vita
@@No_True_Scotsmanyea if u make a cut out in it to fit the calculator smh
Not his point but whatever I guess u aren't the brightest person 🤦
Next episode: Can I play mgs5 on a smart fridge?
OMG that's really cool the way you did that with the you know, the thing.
That's amazing how good the screen looks.
The fact that 20 years ago we need a device as huge as a box to play these game is mindblowing. Imagine time travelling and showing people who had a PS1 that you are playing crash bandicoot and tekken on a $10 calculator
Have to say, that "emulation handheld" for $25 you reviewed not that long ago couldn't emulate half of the systems this calculator for $10 can... Just throwing that out there. That thing was a massive scam.
The keys are wired to a serial port internally, so you need to make a driver yourself to make it work as a HID device. You can check its output at /dev/tty or similar path.
Dude...wau.Thats amazing : ) good job
What $10 calculator has Android?! I'm 43 never seen such a thing. (Besides my phone)
RIGHT? If this was out during the time I was in high school this would EASILY be $500. TI-83 calculators were not cheap back in the day.
@@DoubleDragon5180 I know.. I was expecting to see a casio or TI then he shows this.. I'm actually very impressed. Both with his technical abilities and content choice. (Also, bro...I'm so gonna hack one and use it at work.)
@@DoubleDragon5180 ti-83 are still expensive and still useful.
@@DoubleDragon5180 I mean texas instruments and casio effectively run a duopoly on scientific/graphing calcs, so really the price has always been unjustifiably steep.
@@Super_Bros. Do you have a link for this?
a Smartphone that has a *Calculator* ❌
a Calculator that has a *Smartphone* ✔️
true
I'm kind of curious if I could design a new case for this to make a handheld console.
I wonder by how much this video will boost the sales of this android-calculator :)
I am tempted!
This is a twist on the old "but can it run Doom" where it's not revealing how amazingly simple to port this super cool historical game is, but how incredably advanced this seemingly simple device is. I am loving it, a beautiful continuation of the doom saga, I hope every few generations gets to have one.
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This was heaps fun to watch, love it! Thanks, Taki
Having one of these when i was in school would have been amazing
Oh my goodness, Ridge Racer Type 4! It's been ages since I've heard anyone mention that title in a review or video discussing PSX emulation.
That reminded me of one of those stripped-down Chinese e-dictionaries that had to be stripped down to allow them to be taken into Singaporean primary and secondary schools.
I tried one at a Popular, and noticed that it had bits of familiar UI and UI transitions. I could tell that it was running a heavily locked down and stripped down version of Android 4.4 with its stock UX, but it was so locked down that I couldn't break out of the dictionary software on the retail demo unit I tried.
Never wanted a calculator more than this moment in my life...
that calculator already looked like it can play doom etarnal
Where can I find a calculator like this? Did you buy it in person, or online?
Man I am so glad I found your channel. It's rare to find content like this. I am learning so damn much whew!
A50 - SOC
The ISOCOM chip appears to be a touch controller
AXP2231 - PMC (the one you call the Bluetooth/WiFi controller)
K4B2G0446D-HYH9 - Each chip is 2GB of RAM with a stock clock of 667 MHz
XR829 - WiFi/Bluetooth module
do you know where i can buy it?
But it claims to have only 1GB of RAM
i like how a calculator is better than a entire computer,and it fits on your pocket
Cool device. Have you tried using a button remamper app to make those buttons functional?
Where can I get one of these? My searches ended up with DHL shipping calculator 😂
I'll be honest, for $10 being able to play up to N64 and some PS1 games is not bad at all. This could very well be a great budget option for some people who just want to do some light emulation and yet have an unassuming device in calculator form.
like honestly if someone went through your stuff to steal something, in today's tech age, no one is going to take a calculator of ANY kind. It's the safest sleeper emulator you could ever ask for.
The SD card slot may have a resistor that may be required or is for recovery if the device bricks
what's the cheapest android with the largest screen? I want to use one as a clock because every regular digital clock I buy slowly gains time so every month it gets a few minutes faster and I'm tired of changing the time every week. I bought a old Amazon Fire Kindle and hacked that but I can't find those cheap anymore.
As someone who put Tetris on their loaned TI83 and 84 I would've LOVED this as a High Schooler
This seems like a brilliant gag gift or trinket for one’s desk, especially at $10! Great vid!
I would have bought it. We thought that we were cool if we could mod the Texas Instruments graphing ones. Great find!
I was starting to think I got clickbaited but was not disappointed.
this is super creative! good job Taki!
This fits the hacking motto of “Why? Because i can.” perfectly lol.
Great job getting it to work
I love the idea of a Dreamcast Doom 3 port - that's totally what that looked like, very cool
*_If It Exist, There's A Doom Port For It It._*
I remember having a PC back in the day that couldn't run doom3 and it cost £1000 wow
" we dont have a home launcher on this calculator" i never thought id hear that sentence
inside that calculator is a captiva tablet how do i know ? i know bc i have an old one it runs android 8 or 9
I wasn't expecting someone to hack a $10 android calculator to play doom on it on a Monday lmao. Thanks for the quality content. 🤣
It wasn’t quality
It's not 10, it's 80 dollars, why cheat?
That's not hacking
This is so fucking stupid...
I love it!
XD
Hi, Bro! Maybe you can help me? Where can I buy this calculator? Now it’s not available on aliexpress( Maybe you know some other ways?
Give me link of this 10 dollar calculator will never use this but I want one if this exist
I found this online and it's much more like $100, im curious where you would have found it for $10
Every time you used the phrase, "on this calculator," I had to chuckle. I get that it's basically an android tablet in a calculator shell, but this takes the idea of gaming on your calculator to a whole new level!
Exactly what i was thinking. This is just an android tablet.
All computers are just fancy calculators.
this is awsome and i find this pretty intresting
With a 3D printed shell and some kid of custom joycon sort of thing you could turn this into a relatively capable emulation handheld or game streaming device. (With some optimization of course)
I love how our teachers told us we'd never have a calculator in our pockets all the time and now we've gotten to that point. So much to that we've put android on our calculators
how old are you exactly? I mean you must have been school-age between 1954 and 1966 for a teacher to have made that comment as calculators shrank to pocket size by 1967, 71 if you were looking for true pocket-sized portability.
@@hdofu I was born in 1985 and I've heard that line from teachers before. It's more about a calculator not being something people used to carry around with them on a daily basis.
@@hdofu I was born in 1994 and all my math teachers said that growing up. It only really stopped when iPhone came out lol
@@zackhickey4922so true. I can confirm that I only ever heard that in elementary school, and I was born in 2000
@@wolfetteplays8894 2005 kid here, still heard it.
I'm truly surprised there was no easy way to map those buttons. It would be a lot more useful if someone can figure it out. I actually think the screen on this thing looks really nice and crisp.
if those number keys were mapped i'd love one of those especially if the sd card slot was enabled for memory
can we add more ram to it if we remove the smaller ram
Really interesting dig into this surprisingly overpowered calculator.
Before anyone gets too excited.. this calculator actually sells for about $70.
Still cheaper than a ti-nspire color graphing calculator 🤣
Where do you get this calculator from? Crazy you dont provide the place or link!
Great job and everything, but we need the link for the calculator it’s self
A calculator! A calculator! Wow, the future and both scary and wonderous all at once. I would love to see you do this to a smart toaster!!!
If you could build a version of Armbian that would run on it, it could be a decent cheap raspberrypi alternative SBC for running mainsail/klipper for 3D printers. You could probably even use the touch screen with klipper/screen to control mainsail.
cant find this calulator anywhere ?? any idea?
wow i feel like id get one just to mess around with find out if the empty button pads are actully userble by adding nano buttons on it
even tho i could get a normal cellohone from 2019