FOMA M1000 plays Doom

Yes, we can officially confirm that the FOMA M1000 plays Doom (we've actually been showing this off around the place since last week and are only just getting around to posting this, having been busy, er, working). Just install the SIS file from this site, rustle yourself up the requisite WAD files (we hear something called "Google" might be of help here), and you're ready to go. Install the SIS file and run the program once, which will create a file called media files/documents/DOOM. Throw your WAD files in there, and hey presto.

We were expecting crappy framerates, juddering performance and the occasional crash, but no; the game runs as smoothly--or possibly more smoothly--than it did on our (crappy, no-name) 486 all those years ago. Getting the soft keys that usually serve to jump you straight to one of the phone's inbuilt applications to give up their default function and strafe or frag instead was a little fiddly, however: we found that the Home key (the default strafe button) invariably would snap us out of the game, so we tried assigning the speakerphone/voice recorder key instead. It didn't work on a first try, but after being dumped into the voice recorder once and then heading back to the game, it worked as planned. As the particular port we're using is designed for the Motorola A925 and A1000 (the latter being the M1000's close relative) there may be the odd quirk here and there that we have yet to find; caveat installer and all that.

Incidentally, we found in the process of fiddling around with various ports of Doom that the M1000 locks you out of access to the System folder -- in a very DoCoMo-like bit of hackfoiling fuddy-duddiness, both the phone itself and the PC-based memory apps only give you access to the media file folders (unless our particular PC setup is somehow affecting us here). Therefore, make sure you use the Doom port linked to above and don't try other Symbian UIQ ports--we had a fiddly time uninstalling a previous one after it turned out not to fly on the M1000.