Motherboards must have integrated 8bit game to play if windows gets corrupted

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• fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.17

  Coreboot developers are releasing Coreboot 4.17 today with various new motherboards supported, support for GRUB2 atop SeaBIOS as a payload, and various low-level code improvements too. Plus Coreboot 4.17 brings the “coreDOOM” payload – yes, it’s possible to get the game Doom running atop this system firmware.

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  • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hmm no boot drive found, press F1 to play Doom instead!

    Kinda like the Sega Master System. If you turned it on without a game and pressed UP + A + B at the screen telling you to put in a game cartridge, it launches a game where you guide a snail through a maze:

    youtu.be/Fz4YnEWpK10

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lets be honest, here. you can play doom on anything. it’s more universal than C.

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    • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apparently that includes voting machines.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lmao coreboot/linux programmers are so ahead of time

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  • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Woah, I did not even know about this. Is there a video of this in action anywhere?

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• kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What?

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  • djmarcone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “sorry, your hard drive is dead. Let’s play some asteroids!”

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• nodsocket@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s add it to Systemd. That way we can play games while we wait for systems to load

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  • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    cant make it more bloated than it already is

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would much rather have a little diagnostic OS in the firmware with drive mounting support, a file manager, and USB mass storage rather than Doom or Tetris or whatever the hell. Playing Doom from firmware is a neat proof of concept, but won’t help anybody un-bork their OS install.

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  • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will distract you for a few minutes and thus reduce stress.

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  • ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There were some motherboards that had something of that nature (Asus had ExpressGate IIRC) but they were all hilariously incomplete because they didn’t realize how useful as a diagnostic thing it’d end up being and tried to sell it off as a quick start thing.

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• Oxnvat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That is an awesome idea lmao

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• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a cool side project I could see someone developing it. But I don’t think any companies would put money into it. It doesn’t add a huge amount of value to the product.

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  • Mamertine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually it could detract value.

    A consumer’s computer’s hd get corrupted. They’re now playing space invaders. That means they’re not buying a new computer.

    For some people it works just be a delay, others may just resign themselves to play space invaders for eternity.

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• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d rather have netboot.xyz builtin.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Be mindful of security

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• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could set up a ROM drive with like 128k, and that would be enough to emulate a floppy, boot DOS, and load an classic off-the-shelf game.

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