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The OLPC: It plays Doom
Despite what you may have heard, the most important question when considering a buying a new device is "Does it play Doom?" And to that end we have good news for you: The OLPC, a.k.a. the "$100 laptop," does, in fact, play Doom. Christopher Blizzard managed to install the classic game on his green machine, which has just gone into production. Check out this video of the OLPC in action:
After the jump you can see another video of Doom being played in the OLPC's grayscale reflective mode.
[Via OLPC News via Boing Boing]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
