Doom played in space by satellite computer 'ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft'

It's that time of year again! Another clever clogs has got Doom running on a device that isn't designed to run Doom. But this one's a little different from the usual stories, where hobbyist coders jury-rig an ordinary object like a player piano, a pregnancy test, or a Lego brick to support id-Software's demon-blasting classic. In this instance, it's the European Space Agency who is responsible, having devised an experiment to get one of its satellites to 'play' the 1993 shooter.

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