I Hacked a $10 Calculator to Run Doom Eternal 

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? 😲

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.

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

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.

Doom on an electronic toothbrush stayed with me.

By the way that screen and CPU/GPU combo is extremely impressive for a $10 device.

@@eustab.anas-mann9510 Eh, yes and no. For $10, yea it's impressive. . . But 2nd hand for $10. Brand new from Alibaba is like +$120, so dude scored massive deal and props for it. . . I just get annoyed at youtubers who do the, "look at how I built "X-thing" for under $20!!!" Title And then. . . "First Step, get a working $500 piece of equipment for free, or 2nd hand, scrap, trash etc."

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

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

Now $88 and out of stock

He found one for 10 🤷🏻‍♂️

​@@rphntw1nNo🙋🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

@@rphntw1n He didn't. The PCB board is even more than that.

Will the video did get 3 million views so it's normal maybe back then it was 10$ when no one knew about it

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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???

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!

Waos

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.

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

Betcha this thing can run Morrowind on OpenMW

In a decade their will be guy playing doom 2016 on calculators 😂

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

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.

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

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.

it's a lie.

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?

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?

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?

true

0 comments let me fix dat

do you know where i can buy it?

But it claims to have only 1GB of RAM

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.

It wasn’t quality

It's not 10, it's 80 dollars, why cheat?

That's not hacking

XD

Exactly what i was thinking. This is just an android tablet.

All computers are just fancy 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.

Still cheaper than a ti-nspire color graphing calculator 🤣