{"id":46454,"date":"2022-08-16T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/modder-gets-classic-doom-running-on-farm-tractor\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:13:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T00:13:08","slug":"modder-gets-classic-doom-running-on-farm-tractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/modder-gets-classic-doom-running-on-farm-tractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Modder Gets Classic Doom Running On Farm Tractor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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one day, the classic 90s shooter doom<\/em><\/span> <\/em>will be playable on every single electronic device with a screen. We aren’t quite there yet, but thanks to some crafty hackers you can now play id’s seminal shooter on a jailbroken farm tractor because we live in the weirdest, dumbest cyberpunk future imaginable. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend in Las Vegas, DefCon 2022\u2014a large annual convention dedicated to hacking and computers\u2014happened and, during the event, some modders showed off a jailbroken tractor computer<\/a><\/span>. The tractor computer was hacked by Sick Codes as part of an effort to bring more awareness to how little control farmers have over their own equipment, which is often running proprietary software and can’t be easily modded or repaired<\/span>.<\/p>\n

After months of work using numerous John Deere tractor models and computers, the Australian modder was able to get root access and open the tractor’s computer wide open.<\/p>\n

\u201cLiberate the tractors!\u201d the modder told wired<\/em><\/span>\u201cWe want farmers to be able to repair their stuff for when things go wrong, and now that means being able to repair or make decisions about the software in their tractors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the right to repair<\/span> and allowing people to fully modify and control the things they own is extremely important\u2014especially when it comes to something like farming, where broken-down tractors could lead to food shortages\u2014but also, gaining complete access to the hacked computer let Sick Codes<\/a><\/span> have some fun. So they naturally got doom <\/em>running on the device.<\/p>\n