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You can even run Doom on an iPad HDMI adapter.

The $49 Lightning Digital AV Adapter uses a tiny version of iOS and its own CPU to decode packetized data from Lightning connections, allowing programmers like John (Nyan Satan) to run Doom directly on the Apple hardware.

It takes a little work, but savvy developers love forcing Doom to play on stuff it wasn’t intended for — including PDFs, Microsoft Word, and smart lightbulbs.

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