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A programmer successfully ported the classic game Doom to run on $70 PineBuds earbuds by creating a compressed 1.7MB version that removes animation frames and shortens music, while optimizing the code to use less than 1MB of RAM through techniques like pre-generating lookup tables and disabling caching systems.
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