That’s precisely what hacker GaryOberNicht, who just lately found out find out how to run customized firmware on the Alarmo, did in a video posted to Mastodon and their X account yesterday. In it, they play by turning or urgent the mushroom-shaped blob on prime of the Alarmo to maneuver and urgent the opposite buttons to shoot or open doorways. Right here, take a look:
Gary stated it’s “doable to load the shareware model of Doom solely from USB, with out modifying the Alarmo.” And so they’ve put the software program and directions for operating it on Github, so virtually any sufficiently educated and decided Alarmo proprietor can do it, too. Better of all, it may be accomplished with out opening the clock up in any respect.
How did they pull this off? Gary explains in a weblog submit that after one other particular person referred to as Spinda hacked the Alarmo (with a Flipper Zero) and dumped the firmware from reminiscence, Gary labored out a technique that makes use of a USB mode and the USB-C port to level the Alarmo to customized exterior firmware, as a substitute.
Given how simple it seems to be reproduce what Gary has accomplished, Alarmo software program modding virtually definitely received’t simply cease at Doom. In fact, how far any on-line group efforts to show the Alarmo right into a bizarro recreation console will get in all probability relies on how Nintendo, which has been notably energetic with its copyright disputes currently, feels about it.
