Is there a scene/community of "boot into game" for current CPUs? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking up for communities or scenes whose purpose is making games that you play from bootup. Not necessarily boot sector games (stuff that has to fit in 512 bytes), but things that would behave much like cartridges in old consoles, where the hardware boots straight into the game.

Put another way, games that "are the OS", either for x86 or ARM. My search engine-fu didn't manage to find anything other than boot sector games and several Batocera guides.

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[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've been working on an 8088-class project PC and equipped it with:

128k of flash ROM
Custom firmware to use 90k of it as a bootable "floppy".

This made it possible to boot straight to DOS games.

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