DOOM in Space - NDC TechTown

[@opuser1]

Okay now I understand why I've been getting your nordic shorts. No complaint, I like those too, but this is more like what I usually watch. Great presentation and good videos!

[@olafurw]

Thank you!

[@berzerkerberzerker1722]

i was for like 3 months asking where this nordics shorts come from, i was so satisfy to finally solve that mistery

[@Vtarngpb]

Glad i wasn’t the only one 😂😂

[@maikelmolto8986]

me too. And I love them.

[@embr4247]

I am now wondering if the shorts came to me due to tech content or me being in Norway.

[@OMacMacca]

you run the full nerd spectrum i see, from nordic geo-fun-facts to computer wizardry. big respects to you. had a big chuckle at the "project ideas: port doom to your favorite OS" bit, remembering all the times doom has been run on a watch, a smart fridge, pregnancy test and name tag xD

[@Ring13Dad]

This is the type of doomscrolling I enjoy

[@cinderwolf32]

Why is this a search keyword wtf

[@crim-jim6814]

@@cinderwolf32Lol, they’re trying to educate us

[@cypriennezed5640]

I wanted to focus on this stellar talk, but I kept spacing out.

[@olafurw]

zing!

[@Geeboi-exe]

I actually really enjoy your long form videos, aswell as your NDC presentations! Keep up the good work!

[@DasDieDerErik]

As a software engineer and nerd that learns Danish (😖) in my free time, I feel like this channel has been tailormade for me. Great talk, absolutely fascinating how "can we make it run doom" has evolved from a meme to a scientific experiment and that my favourite nordic culture embassador was directly involved :D Hav det godt!

[@olafurw]

Takk :D

[@Vtarngpb]

Get back in your dungeon, _Dane!_ 😂

[@ToJak91]

You like punishing yourself? Ive been trying to learn French, and plenty of time I've had this "This language is crap, why would you say it like that?!" Then I say it in Danish, and our language is also as shit as French.. Without all the linguistic gender stuff going on.

[@DasDieDerErik]

@@ToJak91 as to why I'd learn Danish - no idea honestly, my gf picked up Duolingo and I wanted to join in and decided to go with the funny potato language. And now I'm committed. But I'm German and I speak English fluently, so I was already halfway to basic danish before I started learning

[@ToJak91]

@@DasDieDerErik Danish grammar is pretty easy. But it doesn't sound like written. And duo's Danish is odd.. Mixing the words between male and female speakers. But a lot of our messed up language, is imported from German. Which puts you at an advantage. I've heard you can learn German fluently in 400 hours. Guess the reverse is the same.

[@Stroopwafe1]

"Can it run DOOM" and "Can it play Bad Apple" will forever remain the 2 questions with any hardware. Though I imagine the satellite has neither audio nor video processing, so it probably can't play Bad Apple 😂

[@ShunyValdez]

Since when did missing audio or video processing stopped Bad Apple?

[@LordHonkInc]

I've seen Bad Apple on cardboard cutouts, analog oscillators, as ascii art in a terminal emulator, the CPU core utilization graph of the Windows task manager, and the actual peel of an actual apple. Believe me, the day where something _can't_ play Bad Apple is still far off xD

[@Mariocraft97]

'Can it run Crysis' is maybe the one to finish the triplet.

[@MathiasMelker]

I've seen bad apple on a text display of a synthesizer, played by midi commands. I want bad apple in space!

[@nite_owl_was_here]

great talk, had to take a break from game dev to watch this (im making a space exploration game so it seemed appropriate)

[@olafurw]

Thank you and best of luck! Remember that the first 90% of making a game is easy but the other 90% is really hard.

[@nite_owl_was_here]

@@olafurw lol im starting with the first 90%, future me can handle the rest

[@DSPsWifesBF]

Any shooting or mainly exploration?

[@nite_owl_was_here]

@@DSPsWifesBF both! you go back and forth between a planetside mode and a space mode, both have guns.

[@sirBrouwer]

@@nite_owl_was_here not the real question is can you get the game played in space? Like turning ISS in to your platform. What could go wrong? Wait what does a astronaut do if they rage quite? leave space?

[@DoucantNevrneir]

I do like seeing that your humor extends to real life. Great job on the nerdy presentation.

[@TsuiIzumi]

I'm glad that you dismised the myth of the cosmic ray in the Mario speedrun; videogame tabloids don't stop spreading it, and some people in the speedrun community are quite tired of it. Also awesome video

[@mane5471]

I am not personally a programmer, more a math person. but this was incredibly cool to me!!!

[@olafurw]

Thank you, I hope the techy explanations came out ok to a non programmer.

[@charles-antoinemartel-roy]

As a programmer myself, we are one and the same ;) Every programmer enjoys math, even those who don't admit it. Computers are just really powerful calculators, after all!

[@Coopertronics]

Brilliant, the ultimate 'Will it run Doom' experiment.

[@lifelover69]

Awesome talk, so fun! Looking forward to see DOOM-based gravitational wave detector on the new satellite :)

[@olafurw]

Let's use Quake for good measure.

[@TiiaPlaysStuff]

Such a fun talk to watch. Especially after watching your initial DOOM video

[@SmilingJack100]

I don't know anything about programming but I was able to follow at least a lot of this, so good job on explaining! this was really neat!

[@NulJern]

Your jokes DID NOT get enough credit fyi!

[@olafurw]

Hah, the crowd was lovely.

[@aguspuig6615]

@@olafurw That crowd is now my mental stereotype for scandinavian people

[@laureng2110]

This effect in videos is often just a consequence of the mic picking up the presenter more than the crowd.

[@BarretKruse]

Yeah...buncha sciencey nerd types tho - no sense of humor. *You* know what I mean, right?; HOLY GOWD THIS COMMENT SECTION IT FULL OF THEM? C'mon, stick with me and run for it - OH NO! You are one of them too-oooo!

[@NulJern]

@@BarretKruse no one said that. Don't be a hyperbolic small minded person, there is enough of them. Those "nerds" have more humor than you, one can think something is funny without laughing, if you can comprehend that.

[@figby]

This was brilliant! I only know you from your shorts (which I love!) so when I saw your name, with your face standing at a podium, with a title like "DOOM in Space" I was very pleasantly surprised. It did not let me down 😁

[@JoeMaamas]

noo not the " very demure" im dead🤣🤣

[@raraysaya]

This is exactly my brand of nerding out. Love it. Also, when you said this is for people who have lived on this planet for a while, my brain went "oh thats me! :D " before I realized fully what you said. XD

[@kvikende]

That was a fun talk. Thanks!

[@kayleefenix]

Daaang Olafur you’ve been up to some really fascinating things!

[@AleWeierstrass]

I have no idea what to do with this info, but I am glad this work was done. It makes me feel that there is an intersection between life-changing technology and people excited about obscure hobbies.

[@Waitin4_a_Mate]

This won't be Ólafur Waage, but hopefully it's some of your Waage!❤

[@epicnan1855]

that's it. we found the best video of the year.

[@Soapy-chan]

2007-2015: But can it run Crysis? 2015-forever: Can it run Doom though?

[@sirBrouwer]

you are forgetting the even older can it play Tetris

[@dereinzigwahreRichi]

Main brain instantly went: wait, what?! That's the comedic Nordic shorts guy!

[@kizi86]

how fuckin cool to have gotten this chance, envious! this is bloody amazing!

[@Rezorrand]

Awesome, greets from Finland. I see now why I've been getting your shorts. :D This is pretty interesting project, This could actually be used maybe in live doom as well, for getting realtime sky that gradually changes the game palette also, no? I'd love to see how it affected the game, maybe using a 360 camera and somehow grab the skydome graphics from that.

[@raven6717]

Love your shorts, as a software engineer student I'm super excited to learn you do all of this too!!

[@georgebashour4333]

Man, you will get me to learn both programming and some nordic languages. Great stuff

[@hulabulia1329]

very very cool, and in my opinion is a massive achievement

[@Helios8170]

Said it before, and I'll say it again: 30 cm high? I thought it was supposed to be in orbit.

[@sirBrouwer]

Its a satellite with a spliff. it's very high. Only a hungry satellite is difficult to handle

[@NeiDneX]

Awesome presentation! I played doom on PS1 back in the days(2004-ish, I was 9), and 4 years ago I played it on my low end laptop my friend gift me, so I test it and it worked flawlessly. Now on my sister's laptop I am playing it all day for 2 weeks now... so I wanted to tell the story here... sorry :D I stopped a video to tell you, thank you so very much for this funny and perfect presentation. I would like to see other retro games on your channel.

[@Camo2102]

great job and great talk! OPS-SAT was truly amazing, very sad to see it deorbit...but looking forward to the next one! Cheers from a fellow experimenter

[@mightyo3122]

Finally someone with some Real good input on KZbin, that matches with my brain

[@AJordan44-]

I love this project, what an awesome way to practice problem solving. Way cooler to have it only run demo files than those BS videos where something receives a stream of doom and people say it's "running" it. (If you don't know what I mean, check out when people were saying doom can run on a pregnancy test)

[@SmallBoiWithEars]

I’m ready

[@Jango1989]

Great talk! What a cool thing to have done!

[@miomip]

I understand how I see you so often now.

[@Commandelicious]

Oh, you actually have even more interesting stuff than shorts about the nordics ... amazing :O

[@seraphin01]

anyone surprised the guy that brought the idea of doom on sat is a svensk? I'm not! cool video Olaf, wish I could have attended the NDC too!

[@olafurw]

Hah thanks. I'm Icelandic btw.

[@seraphin01]

@@olafurw I know, I meant the guy from ESA who wrote to you, since it started with an Hej I assume he's svensk, or he has a side hustle at ikea

[@olafurw]

Ahh you mean Georges, he's from Canada but he studied in Sweden.

[@seraphin01]

@@olafurw ah damnit I got tricked! haha thanks Olaf, see you around Oslo maybe someday, have a great evening!

[@Games_kun-b1r]

Hey I didn’t know you did videos!! Awesome job on those shorts! Wish I got here sooner

[@DavideGualano1980]

This is extremely cool, thanks!

[@emiliocespedes3685]

Hey! I only knew you as the guy that makes funny videos about Nordic languages 😅 And OMG I looooove doom, obsessed to the point I play decino's videos (the gameplay ones) at night to fall asleep to. 🤷 I also love cursed computing so this is awesome! 🤩

[@goyjin5676]

My boyfriend is nordic (i am too) and i've watched your shorts for a long time and he just started studying programmimg so i thought this was neat and oddly fitting :3

[@MrTheoJ]

I love your code, underscores, no abbreviations ( except r, g, b, but that's ok ) en all the same length, nice

[@barl6412]

I love your doom videos

[@itsrinayaaa]

Awesome talk, great job!

[@andreasottohansen7338]

0:12 Why that is a cool screenshot? it's Doom, mission accomplished.

[@ismayonez6865]

Wait, does that mean you could use Doom as humanity's worst checksum? You translate the message into game-inputs then add the resulting game-state at the end of the message. The decoder gets the message, tries the inputs and checks if the results match.

[@luchoPueyo]

Absolute awesomeness

[@Mulvers]

great stuff, thank you!

[@soendal]

Alot of graphical software used various techniques of this back in the 90ties, games and demoscene productions. You generally also didnt want to change palette on the fly back in the 8bit era with realtime graphics, getting raster artifacts. Color-quantization, non visual range/non-linear visibility removals but also a whole world of raster tables.

[@Dumballa]

Well done, sir. 😁

[@hajkie]

Qapla, great success. :D

[@Klannahar]

The first official Game run in SPACE XD

[@EcardEcardian]

Awesome, playing Doom in space.

[@jean-philippedecarie2024]

Tip of the iceberg. Good one.

[@authormichellefranklin]

This is amazing! *Waves at Doom Guy in space*

[@blu3260]

Another theory about the SM64 thing is that it was faked with cheats, at the very least it seems unlikely that it was a cosmic ray imo, but people just took the cosmic ray explanation and ran with it. Regardless, really good talk, fun stuff!

[@payolin944]

I think the cosmic ray changing a SM64 speedrunner's position thing is actually not true. LunaticJ made a video on it. Otherwise that's really awesome!

[@olafurw]

Yup, I say so in the video. But it started as a Cosmic Ray story, which is why I included it.

[@payolin944]

@@olafurw Oh, sorry then. Somehow I didn't catch it.

[@marioflores280]

I thought it was a stand up comedy, but instead got educated in C

[@jamesmc4080]

Came here from instagram reels, def not disappointed!

[@bennymountain1]

Should have sent DOOM on a Voyager. Tell them aliens not to mess with us.

[@sirBrouwer]

they would sent it back with a new high score.

[@chesthoIe]

I love his Norwegian language KZbin shorts.

[@ThePiquedPigeon]

Well this... This I didn't expect!! 😂😂😂

[@grongy6122]

this is great

[@drchanga5587]

The map earth is not flipped, is just perspective, it might be flipped on what you are used to, but it can be perfectly fine in a different direction

[@prodKossi]

Whenever i see a slightly bigger guy with a beard and an accent, and you can hear him breathing, i know its going to be a good one, lol Great talk man 💜

[@faris.Djunaidi]

I used to play DOOM with my friends on net shop after the school end. If you're the DOOM programmer, thank you.

[@fatfurie]

i just realized i follow you on instagram from a random joke you made last or a few months back haha

[@BuzzaB77]

hey look it's that guy!

[@olafurw]

It's me.

[@johannbauer2863]

20:53 lol, I also used k means clustering on images to reduce the number of colors in a toy project I had to convert images to Unicode with Textures (and not just by brightness values) :O Now I feel validated in my decision :D

[@Vtarngpb]

Qapla’!💪 😉

[@MadMathMike]

8:30 Haha, good point! A rolling distro would definitely not be a good choice either!! 😂

[@mikkoarbelius9439]

okay the next one should be "can it run Crysis"

[@emiliocespedes3685]

😬😬Now port Doom to UNIX System V, put the files on a PDP-11, and access to the files from another computer also running System V through UUCP 😬😬 After satellites I think this the only thing that hasn't been tried 😅

[@NEBUL4]

so sad this dude is so inteligent yet cant breath...

[@JG-nm9zk]

Sounds like that Nordic guy that makes fun of the Faeroe Islands with youtube shorts.

[@eidodk]

That's because it's him.

[@gwishart]

People often sound like themselves.

[@daikansanchez7674]

What an interesting experiment to do, I just have one doubt: did you guys detected any differences in the files that could have been provoked by cosmic rays? Also, you forgot to say "Ok, bye" at the end.

[@olafurw]

No we didn't. We saw pretty early on that it wasn't going to work so the testing we did wasn't that extensive to include if something caused more issues than something else. I think I did say "Ok, bye" after the Q&A (which isn't included because the audience didn't have a mic so you can't hear the back and forth chatter)

[@ToJak91]

I saw this as was like: Wait a minute.. This voice is wroooong. Always thought you were some kind of up and coming comedian, trying to do a bit like Ari Eldjarn, making fun of the Nordics with common stereotypes.. But no! You're a fellow wizard! A professor at magic :o But now I can never see your shorts again without thinking doom in space...

[@olafurw]

Why is the voice wrong? It's the only one I have.

[@ToJak91]

@@olafurw okay, your voice ain't wrong. It's kind of calming. But the context it came in was.. :p

[@labber]

so i would say your are an offical doom experts from now on^^ thanks for the fun experiment and sharing it. i am working with ibm i systems or as400 as people have called it in the past. it also doesnt have any graphic card. would that also work with doom? i havent found anything about doom on an ibm i system yet.

[@fredsmith1970]

Given the satellite was once at Apogee... the question is... did it run Duke Nukem first? 🙂

[@olafurw]

Excellent reference

[@Tagraff]

Tesla Car in space, Doom game ran in space....what else?

The original idea was pretty neat, but this one is out of this world. ba dum tss 😅

[@britishbanananugget3723]

Ólafur you’re so cool. If ever you’re in Cardiff can I pick your brain?

[@BrandonGreen-v9m]

Outwest Chi 2 Maywood is here ❤ 👂 😢 💻

[@mlodikk]

You need to be first person who Played Doom on Faroe Islands 😆

[@Username3141519]

Qapla!

[@rashidfarhan6223]

hooly shit the nordic meme guy is a programmer!

[@tlacmen]

Quantum communication - that is the teleportation experiment on Phobos that went bad, is it not? ;)

[@nngnnadas]

Doom is already in space? what are you talking about?

[@yooyo3d]

Ffmpeg is on the Mars. Any chance to run DOOM on Mars too?

[@tuffigk8235]

Great presentation. also put "good" on a shirt and sell it!

[@olafurw]

good? good.

[@andreialamaia]

“With some jam in the side “

[@fatfurie]

@16:34 are you next to a bar orsomething haha? theyre so loud

[@olafurw]

The talk was at the after party event for the conference this was at. Sorry for the noise.

[@fatfurie]

@@olafurw absolutely no issue ..wa sjust surprised to hear it.. awesome talk thank you!

[@DGestsson08]

Where is this?

[@olafurw]

NDC TechTown in Kongsberg, Norway. Was filmed about a week ago.

[@DGestsson08]

@@olafurw cool i live all the way in bergen but cool

[@DGestsson08]

@@olafurw and i had ferming yesterday i got 18 k richer

[@surters]

@@olafurw Ah where all the missiles come from, how appropriate!!!

[@yaboiswayz420]

I’ll download rust when the developers decide to pull their finger out of their arses and do something about the cheaters.

[@RobertFletcherOBE]

why was de-noising on the satellite considered a good thing? your applying a lossy transform on a compute constrained environment. I'm sure the solution was clever but whats the gain?

[@olafurw]

You can read the paper online, it's called "Generative AI... in Space! Adversarial Networks to Denoise Images Onboard the OPS-SAT-1 Spacecraft"

[@Dakta96]

If for whatever reason you need your spacecraft to then use that data for something, like pointing, distance from a target etc. Otherwise I agree with you

[@olafurw]

You want your satellites to be as independent as possible. If they always have to "phone home" with data then that becomes a bottleneck when you scale up or are asking them to do more and more work.

[@hansdampf640]

Is Doom in Factorio a thing yet?

[@helmiplayerone]

I understand way to much of that despite not doing anything in IT, but also not enough to understand everything 100%