Back in the day scanners were not the table model that is obsolete today but were drum scanners or hand scanners of which the latter was a hammerhead mouse with a horizontal optical sensor and regular computer mice used balls for tracking.
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Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.
The picture isn't great, but I'll bet the framerate is amazing!
Had to do a double take here. Thought it meant the animal mouse.
That's honestly probably a good sign. It means we've now come to a point in scientific achievement where that is a genuine possibility that we consider.
But can you run DOOM on it?
If you can't, it's probably because no one's tried yet. (30x30 display's pretty small, though, so I don't know how playable it would be.)
Doom can run on a TI-83+, so I'm sure we can resize it a bit to run on the mouse. I know it's hard right now, what with all the wars and all, but have some faith in humanity!
64 x 96 is a hella improvement on 30 x 30. :)
Very true. But not impossible