The code that runs Redbox DVD rental machines has been dumped online, and, in the wake of the company’s bankruptcy, a community of tinkerers and reverse engineers are probing the operating system to learn how it works. Naturally, one of the first things people did was make one of the machines run Doom.In case you think I'm kidding, here's a dude playing Doom on an old Kodak point & shoot camera.
As has been detailed in several great articles elsewhere, the end of Redbox has been a clusterfuck, with pharmacies, grocery stores, and other retailers stuck with very large, heavy, abandoned DVD rental kiosks.
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
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Further proof that if something has a CPU and a screen, someone's rigged it to play Doom...