"10 times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft," as The Register puts it."
"It was as much a work of his as it was mine and the whole ESA team," Waage said of the achievement at the latest Ubuntu Summit."
"even if it did, it would take a pretty good telescope to see what was going on."
"A text output saying you ran Doom is nice, but it's not nice enough," the programmer said."
Ólafur Waage, an Icelandic software developer, ported Doom to run on the European Space Agency's OPS-SAT satellite by hacking the satellite's flight computer. The OPS-SAT flight computer is described as ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft. The project included collaboration with ESA engineer Georges Labrèche and represents one of the most expensive hardware targets for a Doom port. The satellite lacks an onboard display, and any visual output would require a powerful telescope. The experiment began with a script that updated mission control with Doom demo statistics before pursuing a richer output than plain text.
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