Running Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar isn’t ideal — but it’s pretty damn cool

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by Sindy Cator on November 21, 2016 at 7:45 pm

I contend that Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is a gimmicky feature. I’m also a little giddy about the prospect of playing Doom on it. Come at me. In the hacking community, the de facto initiation centers around the ability to run software on hardware it isn’t intended to run on. Doom on Apple’s Touch Bar certainly fits the standard, although playing the classic PC shooter with 2170 x 60 resolution isn’t exactly ideal. No matter, iOS developer Adam Bell did it anyway. As you can see from the video, it’s a bit short on screen real estate. Still,…