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Talking to Kotaku Australia over DM, Edgar explained that he got DOOM going by copying ZDOOM onto a USB. " downloaded ZDOOM (Doom XP) on it using my personal computer, plugged it into the USB in the cash register and ran it through there with auto run," Edgar said.

Using a USB splitter, Edgar was able to get a mouse and keyboard working, the result of which you can see below.

"I was able to run explorer.exe by doing CTRL ALT DEL to get to Task Manager but there was some weird encryption on it," he said. He wasn't sure about the precise specs of the Maccas terminal, although its been previously reported that Maccas built their own point-of-sale software called PC POS. The original version was built for MS-DOS, but an updated version (New-POS) was released for Windows XP Pro.

I asked Edgar what he planned on doing with the terminal now that he'd gotten DOOM working. "I might even just use it as my second computer," he suggested, adding that he'll try and get Sonic Adventure 2 working on it before too long.

 

[Von Hugh]

McDoom

 

[Ovek]

I have no idea why this story is trending across the web, these old McD's register are basically just Windows XP machines. Running WinDoom on it is not hard, shit even he says "USB in the cash register and ran it through there with auto run" wow fucking master hacker shit here.

The most eyebrow rising thing is that McD's never disabled autorun on them.

 

[MisterHero]

it would be funnier if it was at the store

 

[Shifty]

Local man gets Doom running on slightly locked down Windows XP machine. A shocking feat of engineering.

I did this to my school computer network back in the day, can I get an article too?

 

[NiiloPielinen]

 

[Lucumo]

I did this to my school computer network back in the day, can I get an article too?

Just contact Kotaku.

 

[Tumle]

Local man gets Doom running on slightly locked down Windows XP machine. A shocking feat of engineering.

I did this to my school computer network back in the day, can I get an article too?

Just more proof that gaming journalism isn't run by actual gamers but by journalist school dropouts who happen to have played a couple of rounds of Halo while in college

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

That shit runs better than the Switch version.

 

[plushyp]

I have no idea why this story is trending across the web, these old McD's register are basically just Windows XP machines. Running WinDoom on it is not hard, shit even he says "USB in the cash register and ran it through there with auto run" wow fucking master hacker shit here.

The most eyebrow rising thing is that McD's never disabled autorun on them.

These portals think he is

 

[Fake]

Run better than the recent unity port.

 

[mitch1971]

Looks great on the screen until your order comes through.

 

[shaddam]

This story kind of remids me when the young boy "invented" the clock, and in the school they thought its a bomb

 

[CuteFaceJay]

I mean for fucks sakes it's not like the dude made his own pwad..... Cucktaku is getting sloppy each day.

 

[888]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[nkarafo]

Remember when 486 PCs were too expensive and we were trying to have a taste of this elusive, state of the art DOOM experience, by playing inferior ports on cheaper systems like the SNES, Jaguar, 32X, etc?

Those were the days.

 

[The_Observer]

This picture is the best thing I saw on the internet today.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

This is the kind of thing that you'd tell your computer-illiterate grandparents, and they'd be like "that's nice, dear."

 

[ThatStupidLion]

hackers are a dime a dozen these days. not impressed getting ancient software to run on non ancient hardware.

 

[ManaByte]

If it has a screen it can run Doom.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Bunch of fuckin Debbie downers in heeyuh

 

[The Alien]

Cool.....but did he need to sign into his Bethesda account?

 

[mortal]

Slow news day at Kotaku?

 

[Tygeezy]

This story kind of remids me when the young boy "invented" the clock, and in the school they thought its a bomb

Speaking of, we are only a month away from:

 

[Spukc]

 

[ipukespiders]

Holy shit, DOOM runs on a computer? McDonalds POS software also runs on a computer?

 

[Shifty]

I mean for fucks sakes it's not like the dude made his own pwad..... Cucktaku is getting sloppy each day.

PWADs!

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Pretty weak story given that most POS systems are just Windows boxes

 

[Helios]

 

[Tesseract]

 

[Spukc]

damn i bet he is the mastermind behind all the DDOS attacks

 

[Bathtub Fart]

I read how he did it and I'm confused why this is article worthy. He plugged in a USB...

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