Running DOOM on a Travel Router With Touch Screen
Aaron Christophel successfully ran DOOM on a Slate 7 Pro travel router featuring a 2.8" touch screen and AArch64 ARM processor. Using fbdoom and SSH root access, he adapted the game to run on the router's Linux-based firmware with touch input support. The project highlights how versatile modern routers can be, blurring the line between networking devices and portable gaming systems.
- ▪The Slate 7 Pro travel router has a 2.8" touch screen and runs Linux on an AArch64 ARM processor.
- ▪SSH provides full root access, making it easy to install and run fbdoom.
- ▪Touch controls are functional but could be improved with USB HID support via the router's USB 2.0 port.
- ▪The router's gl_screen process enables display and touch input for applications like fbdoom.
- ▪This build demonstrates the potential for repurposing network hardware for gaming applications.
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Running DOOM On A Travel Router With Touch Screen No comments by: Maya Posch May 1, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Continuing his quest to put DOOM on literally everything that has a capable enough processor and a screen, [Aaron Christophel]’s most recent target is a Slate 7 Pro travel router. With a generous 2.8″ touch screen and a lot of onboard processing power to handle all the advertised networking and routing features via its WAN and (W)LAN interfaces, it should be able to run the game really quite well. As usual the main question is how to get the game to run on it first. The port of choice is fbdoom, with instructions on how to run it on this router provided on the GitHub project page.
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