What the world needs is more Doom

Looks like I'm not the only one toying with getting Doom running on the metal.  This is a post from a security researcher called Michael Jordon who found that some Canon Pixma printers have a vulnerability that means they can have custom firmware uploaded to them, and that the ARM processor and LCD display on the printer is just about capable of running Doom ...

http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/hacking-canon-pixma-printers-doomed-encryption/

(For the record, my first thought was a 0x10 key, don't know where he saw a 0x30 key in that data  :p  )

A Quick Catch-up

I've just published three older articles that I have had waiting in draft form for about three months because of work.  Apologies for the delay in these.  I have some more things to retrospectively post, then I'll actually get on and make some progress on actual code.

2014-05-31 Doom Windowing
2014-06-01 Input Events
2014-06-02 More Windowing Progress