Play Doom on your iPod
Found via Forever Geek: iDoom, a part of the classic Doom game by id Software to the iPodLinux platform.
I don’t own an iPod myself so I can’t really say how well the game plays, but judging from the screenshots it looks pretty damn cool and seeing as Doom doesn’t really stretch the graphics capabilities of modern machines I’m not surprised that someone has managed to get it on a portable device like the iPod. You can also watch videos of the game running on several different iPod models, and it seems to be fairly smooth. Unfortunately there’s no sound support at the moment but I think the original Doom used proprietory libraries that weren’t released with the rest of the source code so that may be contributing to the problem (update: it appears that the copyrighted sound library was only used for the DOS version of the code, not the Linux one).
Anyway, if you have an iPod with iPodLinux already installed (be careful about installing if it not, as it comes with no warranty), you might want to give Doom a whirl and take yourself back to the good old days when a 486DX was a top of the range machine and everything was measured in 256 colours. 