On my short temporary journey back into forum admin stuff (mostly behind-the-scenes tasks) and to increase the amount of news posts where links are properly bolded (j/k ), I am following on another topic that made the front page. As for now, Mraklopaz nDoom beta continues to spread accross the world and now even got featured on sites like Engadget, The Escapist, Kotaku, GameTrailers and Digg. Almost all sites links to my Youtube video about the game and Engadget, The Escapist and Kotaku link to the Omnimaga topics or sub-forum about it.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/21/ti-nspire-calculator-yes-it-plays-doom/
http://kotaku.com/#!5765178/heres-doom-+-running-on-a-graphing-calculator
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107881-Coder-Forces-Graphing-Calculator-to-Run-Doom
http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/real-doom-on-a-calculator/355595?playlist=featured
http://digg.com/story/r/original_doom_playable_on_calculator_wait_what

This is the video in question. Note that I used the wrong WAD file, which caused the crashes. Crashes are much less frequent with the original one:

 

It is also spreading like wildfire on many forums, blogs and social network sites, if you check Google. On EncyclopediaDram... er I mean on several forums, the game grabbed some attention and got quite a bunch of comments.

Unfortunately, on certain blogs, the game port was wrongly credited to me instead of Mraklopaz, probably a misconception due to the fact I created the Youtube video showing the game in action, but hopefully this confusion should be cleared up if people click the Omnimaga link to the nDoom beta.

Let's hope that Ndless will be possible on the TI-Nspire CX, to play this, if TI ever decided to discontinue the current models.

UPDATE (Feb 22th): It seems nDoom finally made it to Slashdot and Hackaday too, along with Global CALCnet:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/02/22/0340258/Online-Multiplayer-Games-On-TI-Calculators
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/22/global-calcnet-your-ti-83-just-acquired-internet/

Yeah true. Actually I still knew a lot of the people that joined, but that was until a RL  event that occured on Dec 23rd-24th (that you and a few others know about), then afterward I kinda faded away and didn't check the forums as often, so if new members only posts in sections I don't check anymore, I might not know them as much. Thankfully the community is still close to each others, though, considering over 120 members log in every day. I think there's the fact we try hard to keep it friendly that helps a lot. Surely bad stuff can happen because of that, but eventually it gets solved.

I am a little bit surprised, however Doom was (and still is to a degree) massively popular in it's heyday.
*Edit* Just had a good buddy of mine instant message me about the Kotaku article (He knows I'm a huge calc nerd). I had to laugh. I told him its old news.

wow, I wonder how many downloads nDooms going to get on ticalc. 

And a POTY in the bag 

definitely, unless Ndless comes out for the TI-Nspire CX. Even then, it still may get the POTY

definitely, unless Ndless comes out for the TI-Nspire CX. Even then, it still may get the POTY

Calm down... A lot of games/programs for the NSpire can still come, Doom can win, but we can't say for sure.

Wow, gratz to Mrakoplaz! Also, I bet they all picked it up from the front page news article that was posted. News everyday policy FTW