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Doom Comes to Anker’s Prime Charger in Playable Hack

The demo loads through the debug header without hardware changes to showcase the Synwit MCU driving the tiny screen and dial.

Anker Prime Charger playing Doom
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Overview

  • Hardware hacker Aaron Christophel ported the 1993 shooter to the desktop charging station and posted gameplay footage.
  • The unit uses a roughly 150 MHz Synwit SWM34x ARM-class MCU with 8 MB SDRAM, 16 MB external flash, and a 200×480 color display.
  • Performance looks smooth when the image is scaled rather than full-screen, matching his “works better than expected” assessment.
  • All input comes from the single rotary encoder for movement, turning, and firing, and the demo runs without audio.
  • Software was loaded via the device’s debugging header with no physical modification, with reports noting scarce public documentation for the Synwit chip.