MAME running on Kodak Digital Camera

Anonymous Coward writes "M.A.M.E., the arcade game emulator, has been Ported to a Kodak DC265 Digita Camera by James Surine. A great new way to run down those batteries. " It's true. Download the binaries or check out the readme. The is online as well.

Ridiculous

BEOWULF!!!

No, I'm kidding. But seriously - what kind of processing power is behind one of these? Would the emulation run well?

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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."

Where this is headed

Okay, let's begin by admitting that running an arcade emulator on your digital camera is, at best, silly. Oddly enough, however, it is silliness which most often seems to point to where we're headed.

See, the fact that a camera has enough horsepower to run Rampage now indicates that the whole personal device market is not immune to Moore's Law. Personal devices will start having more and more power to spare as the applications we run on them become more and more demanding.

Picture a world where all of your personal devices can talk to one another -- take a few shots with your camera, and your cell phone will detect that you're not using it ad take the opportunity to blast a few backups to your home server. Pretty soon, the individual user becomes the center of a small network universe - it's just a matter of some powerful processors and a lot of good coding. Hell, maybe some day your socks will even let you know that they're mismatched before you walk out the door (I can see the average geek's house: "Excuse me, sir, but I've noticed that you are committing 21 violations of common dress-sense, three in particular of which will keep you from ever getting laid.").

Cool time to be alive.

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Like Java, only it isn't.

Imagine; if java were implemented as widely and as generically as everyone hoped, we'd be doing this on everyhing. I'd play Tapper on my camera while it sent a signal home to record Buffy. I could even use its IR port to transfer funds to the taxi on the way home.
But for now, we'll have to settle this item of coolness. Hands up the number of people who had no intention of ever buying a digital camera and have suddenly changed their minds.

Re:Ridiculous

From the README: The DC265 camera has a PPC 823 running a 66Mhz. It's about like a Powermac6100/66 but without a big processor cache. So expect the older games to run well but the newer games to run a bit sluggish.

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M.A.M.E developers in league with the SPA

This is clearly an attempt to photograph clueless users who play arcade games by illegally downloading secret ROM files from K-RAD 31337 pirate BBS's and ftp sites. Watch out!

Re:Where this is headed

"Excuse me, sir, but I've noticed that you are committing 21 violations of common dress-sense, three in particular of which will keep you from ever getting laid."

Oh, you mean like a kind of 'lint' for clothes - er, wait a minute...

MAME could spell the end of civilization!

Think of it... this little stunt is proving that videogames can exist anywhere. Not being content with existing in computers, consoles or hand-held game units, the MAME infection will spread everywhere! Cameras are just the beginning!

Now, what if those Disposable Milk-Carton Computers [slashdot.org] were able to play MAME games? I can tell you right now... no kids would go to school! They'd stay at the breakfast table playing Donkey Kong on thier milk jug! No school, no education! No education, well, Bad Things Would Happen©.

This is the beginning of the end! Rage against the game juggernaut my friends, and try to think of the sour smell of Pac Man wafting out of that half-day-old-out-of-the-fridge MAME carton!

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Re:Where this is headed

What's more likely is that your devices will detect when you're not actively using them and will take the opportunity to blast up an ad or two.

Ad shown in the viewfinder, just after you press the button:

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What a great picture! This would look wonderful on Kodak(R) brand paper.

Kodak(R) - for the good look(TM).

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Ah, but the best part is the camera only costs $10 bucks because it's underwritten by these ads and all the demographics that get blasted back when you take a shot.

Not to mention the Jennycam potential: "By using this camera, the user signifies acceptance of the following terms: 1) Kodak can, at their option, randomly select and display shots from your session on their website as examples of the quality of their subsidized camera ..."