Idk how many other games you can do this with but I thought it was interesting.

  • shnizmuffin
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    3925 days ago

    “Running from within a motherboard BIOS” is waaaaay different than running from BIOS (aka Direct Boot). Before Windows, many games were playable by booting directly into them.

    • teft
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      Before Windows, many games were playable by booting directly into them.

      That’s not true. You’d boot up which loads the bios, which initializes your hardware, and then a Disk operating system like MS-DOS is loaded. From there you’d load your programs from a command prompt.

      • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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        2625 days ago

        I think you’re right in inferring that OP is confusing DOS with BIOS but technically, plenty of old computers and early video game consoles like the Atari 2600 didn’t have a BIOS and would immediately execute the code on the tape, disk, or cartridge. Some old computers had bootstrapping but that’s not really BIOS in the IBM sense.

    • Gamers_MateOP
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      225 days ago

      I am not to familiar with the different types of BIOS I can change the title to say motherboard BIOS if that’s more accurate.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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    2025 days ago

    This is the least surprising one I’ve seen. coreboot just loads a payload and exits, so this is just a version of DOOM designed to run directly on the hardware (not using OS APIs). So basically, this is just DOOM running on a regular computer.

  • I Cast Fist
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    1825 days ago

    Now, they just need to add generic USB mouse/keyboard drivers to that port and we can finally have DoomOS

  • ddh
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    825 days ago

    Blasting demons while starting daemons.