Nuked The Internet has shown that doom can run on everything from a cardboard box to a Roomba. Now we can add a John Deere tractor to that list.
Sick codes says the whole process took months and involved jailbreaking the Linux system used by the John Deere 4240 tractor. This version of doom has, naturally, been modified to take place in a corn field, where the player mows down enemies on a tractor.
With epic just-in-time help by doom modder @ skelegant. She helped get this run using dehacked Doom, since gzdoom was a mission.
This could help farmers bypass software blocks that prevent them from repairing the tractor themselves. John Deere has come under fire for in the past.
Sick codes was able to obtain’1.5 GB’ of logs that dealers could use to identify and diagnose problems. But he also found a way to gain root access by soldering controllers directly to the tractor’s circuit board.
