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This Redditor installed a game engine on their smartwatch, and now it runs Doom, Quake, and Half-Life

A Reddit user named "Frogger3000" has successfully installed a game engine on their smartwatch, enabling it to run classic first-person shooter games like Doom, Quake, and Half-Life. This impressive feat was shared on the r/smartwatch subreddit, where Frogger3000 detailed the process of porting these games to the wearable device. The smartwatch, identified as a TicWatch Pro 5, uses a modified version of the EDuke32 source port for Duke Nukem 3D, which was adapted to work on Android Wear OS. The games run at a low frame rate and resolution due to the hardware limitations of the smartwatch, but this still marks a significant achievement in mobile gaming and smartwatch capabilities. The community has responded with enthusiasm, appreciating the creativity and technical skill involved in bringing such complex games to such a small screen.

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