Being a huge fan of electronic readers, I could not pass this up. This is a leaked video of Doom 2 running on "PocketBook 360 Plus" prototype, recorded by a PocketBook employee. To be precise, it's running PrBoom - a Linux port of the original game from id Software.
This looks pretty amazing - the FPS seems really nice for an e-ink screen.
UPDATE: I've just dug up that the e-Ink screen model being used on this device is "e-Ink Vizplex V110". Full device specs:
First thing I look for in these videos is the ghosting. Most fakes forget that for an e-ink display to fully redraw an image, it needs to blank out the entire screen (hence the weird inverse effect you get on most e-readers when you turn the page.) If you don't do that, then a shadow of the previous image still lingers on the display. Most people forget that in their fakes, but here the ghosting is both present and seems consistent with an e-ink display's fast refresh. It would be quite playable, though I imagine things would get pretty grimy in fairly short order. I'm impressed. This is either real or an expertly done fake.
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Was the video, by any chance, originally posted a week ago today?
(yes, I mean it's probably an April fool prank)
No :) The author claims it's genuine...
First thing I look for in these videos is the ghosting. Most fakes forget that for an e-ink display to fully redraw an image, it needs to blank out the entire screen (hence the weird inverse effect you get on most e-readers when you turn the page.) If you don't do that, then a shadow of the previous image still lingers on the display. Most people forget that in their fakes, but here the ghosting is both present and seems consistent with an e-ink display's fast refresh. It would be quite playable, though I imagine things would get pretty grimy in fairly short order. I'm impressed. This is either real or an expertly done fake.
I've finished doom2 without any cheats. I wouldn't call this playable at any of the difficult parts.
I'm still very impressed though.
Pretty cool but can anyone tell me what the music track is?
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