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ronsortoday at 5:12 PM4 repliesview on HN

All that's left now is SDL for UEFI, and then all our games can run in a pre-OS environment.


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mananaysiempretoday at 7:15 PM

That... Shouldn’t be terribly difficult? Though I don’t believe UEFI has sound drivers (you’ll have problems writing one yourself because even frickin’ sound-codec chips have NDA-only datasheets these days), and the stupidest thing is that the “graphics output protocol” doesn’t indicate vsync so you can’t do tear-free blitting, which is literally worse than VGA.

BirAdamtoday at 6:24 PM

Well… UEFI is kind of modern DOS.

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chapstoday at 5:14 PM

That honestly sounds amazing. Imagine booting into something like a grub menu that's just a list of classic games.

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pjmlptoday at 7:22 PM

Welcome to Amiga games, in many cases the floppy would contain the boot loader that would directly jump into the game.

At least on the Amiga 500 you would not go through the trouble to start Workbench, only to load the game, unless you were a lucky owner of an external hard drive.

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