Doom played in space by satellite computer 'ten times more powerful than any current ESA spacecraft'
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: id Software, European Space Agency) As Waage explains, OPS-SAT is used for all manner of software related experiments, from playing the first in-orbit game of chess, to conducting the first stock market transaction performed in space. Getting Doom to run on the satellite was another one of these experimental firsts. In theory, OPS-SAT is perfectly capable of running Doom, it has therequired specs, and runs on what Waage describes as a “modern operating system”....