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The quest to play Doom on just about everything won't be over any time soon, it seems. A team of Australians has torn open and modified an ATM to play id Software's classic first-person shooter using some of the bank machine's built-in controls.

This isn't the hardest hack in the world -- ATMs like this run Windows XP, after all -- but it still required custom software and logic, including a circuit board that can remap buttons meant for deposits instead of demon slaying.

What you see in the video below is just the start, too. The group already has the side buttons working for weapon selection, and it hopes to make the number pad usable. There's also talk of tweaking the game to use the receipt printer; if you wanted, you could have it spit out proof that you finished a tough level.

The odds of getting the hardware to recreate this feat are sadly rather slim, but it's good to know that even your local ATM can handle some proper shoot-'em-up action.

Sure enough, you can play 'Doom' on an ATM

Dedicated Loiterer

thats pretty cool but why

Magical Businessman

My Sansa Clip Zip (a pretty small MP3 player) has custom firmware than can run Doom, so this isn't all that surprising, especially considering most ATM's are embedded Windows XP machines, so they're probably just running it through ZDoom or something.

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AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE.

OI OI OI.

That's the only part I paid attention to sorry.

Fashionable Lunatic

Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

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Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid

Fashionable Lunatic

Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid
yea and meth and stuff

Dedicated Loiterer

Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid
yea and meth and stuff

i keep meaning to watch that but ive never gotten around to it
I'm a bit disappointed. I mean, sure, it's cool that it's possible. But I was hoping that it was actually being put on ATM's and not via being hacked/modded and by other means. Even though ATM transactions don't take all that long, it would be cool to play some games while you wait.

Fashionable Lunatic

Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid
yea and meth and stuff

i keep meaning to watch that but ive never gotten around to it
it was the same with me and then i watched it in a week or something it was so cool

Dedicated Loiterer

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Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
thats pretty cool but why
it's a breaking bad reference hello

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid
yea and meth and stuff

i keep meaning to watch that but ive never gotten around to it
it was the same with me and then i watched it in a week or something it was so cool

im so bad at sitting still and watching things. ive been trying to catch up on game of thrones for months now.

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Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit
Hidden Gnomes
Ruff Rabbit

was that the show about angry cancer man and stupid hoodie meth kid
yea and meth and stuff

i keep meaning to watch that but ive never gotten around to it
it was the same with me and then i watched it in a week or something it was so cool

im so bad at sitting still and watching things. ive been trying to catch up on game of thrones for months now.
i just lift dumbbells and eat lettuce or something tbh

Kawaii Girl

Not sure I would want to be at an ATM any longer than an initial transaction would take.

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