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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

LET US RUN DOOM ON IT! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Someone needs to make a replica one just for the purpose of running DOOM on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I wonder if the person who created that machine had any idea how far their creation would go.

I doubt they would have imagined it would be emulated on a far more advanced machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Man, I was just joking but you madmen are actually trying it.

I love you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Clickspring [YouTube] [Patreon] has an ongoing project producing a replica with era-appropriate tooling. He's actively contributed to research on the design and functioning of the device in furtherance of the project as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

first we need someone to play doom in Babbage's analytical engine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Clickspring on YouTube has built a replica, just ask him nicely

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I watched his yt series until he stopped publishing it.

as entertaining and enlightening as it was to watch, I didn't really want to pay for it. though, I don't fault him in wanting to get paid for his efforts.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's what emulation is for!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

antikythera mechanism emulator when

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] ironhydroxide 6 points 1 week ago

Clickspring intensifies

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Challenge accepted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I believe it's coming to light that this ancient device was both not that accurate, and not entirely unique and "out of time" and that there was a lot of detailed bronze-working being done at the time with gears and clockwork, it's just that very few of them would have survived, as they usually got sunk in shipwrecks or looted and melted down over the centuries.

I mean, it only makes sense that the tools and mechanisms already existed to manufacture something like this. They didn't learn how to make gears and solder bronze plates JUST ONE TIME. This was an art and many people have experimented with engineering over the ages, it's just that we tend to forget just how vast the scale of time is and how much it buries. If we all disappeared tomorrow, in a few thousand years it would be a huge challenge figuring out a lot of our technology remnants. Metals oxidize, valuable parts are recycled over and over. People repurpose things, and over long enough scales in history, you can think of the surface of the earth like a rolling ocean. Waves of earth's crust lap at the shores of ruined cities and artifacts drown into the mire.

The most interesting thing about the antikythera mechanism to me is that it survived at all, that we somehow found it and it hadn't completely oxidized. Because it offers a unique window in the lost arts and artifacts that we probably will never know about. (No "ancient technology conspiracy historians" you're not invited. Don't make me point to the sign.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Patiently waiting for clickspring to finish his recreation of it. Then the doomening can begin

[–] hkffepdsedzcfpjdxk 2 points 6 days ago

Yes! I wish he posted more often

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Are they sure that's not an Amp Power Step motor removed from under a truck?