14 DAY TRIAL // Two Australians managed to get their hands on an ATM machine and re-purposed it to run the Doom game. The deed was carried out by Ed Jones, who goes by the handle Aussie50 on YouTube, and his friend Julian.
Aussie50’s YouTube profile informs that he likes to video document his “weekend hobby engineering/scrap metal recycling work.”
It is unclear where the duo took the ATM, a NCR Personas, from, but they successfully made it run Doom without making any change to the originally embedded operating system.
They also left it in the original casing and used an i-Pac controller for mapping the side buttons, whose function is to switch through the weapons, and also preserved the PIN pad, which they used to play the game.
In the comments section of his video, Jones said that he could upgrade the PC to play modern games, too, but the purpose of the project was to use the original OEM hardware with as little modification as possible.
In this case, hacking an ATM system was done for fun and to see whether it can be repurposed for other activities then checking balances and money withdrawals.
Below you can watch the video made by Aussie50.
