You Can Play Doom on a $30 Vape with Just a Little Extra RAM
Gaming/Hardware

You Can Play Doom on a $30 Vape with Just a Little Extra RAM

A hacker demonstrates running Doom on a vape, showcasing impressive tech capabilities.

For just $30, you can obtain a sage green vape featuring a built-in 1100 mAh battery, USB Type-C charging, and a 1.47-inch TFT touchscreen—no E-Liquid needed to defeat imps, demons, and lost souls.

Hacker and creator Aaron Christophel recently showcased how to run Doom on a Pixo Aspire vape. This device, described as a “way overpowered vape, for whatever reason,” contains a 32-bit Arm Cortex M4 processor, 384 kB of flash memory, and can support up to 64 kB of SRAM.

Christophel points out that to run Doom natively, the vape requires “that last bit of RAM”; the current setup uses a PC to execute the game but displays the output on the vape’s touchscreen over a USB Type-C connection.

This highlights the advanced technology compacted into simple devices like a vape. Historically, tech such as the Sinclair ZX80 in 1980 had merely 1 kB of memory (expandable to 16 kB). Similarly, the Bendix G-15, from 1956, surprisingly ran Doom earlier this year.

This is the second recent instance demonstrating the remarkable capabilities of vaping technology. An entire website is currently being hosted on one, despite often crashing under high traffic.

Next article

Arc Raiders Opens for Final 'Server Slam' Playtest in October

Newsletter

Get the most talked about stories directly in your inbox

Every week we share the most relevant news in tech, culture, and entertainment. Join our community.

Your privacy is important to us. We promise not to send you spam!