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Motherboards must have integrated 8bit game to play if windows gets corrupted (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] fubo 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.17 (June 2022)

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.

[–] LordOfTheChia 26 points 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:

https://youtu.be/Fz4YnEWpK10

[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZiemekZ 1 points 1 year ago

Apparently that includes voting machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

lmao coreboot/linux programmers are so ahead of time

[–] havokdj 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kmkz_ninja 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

"sorry, your hard drive is dead. Let's play some asteroids!"

[–] dual_sport_dork 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I would much rather have a little diagnostic and data recovery 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.

[–] MyFairJulia 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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 boot" thing.

[–] Oxnvat 9 points 1 year ago

That is an awesome idea lmao

[–] AdamEatsAss 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Mamertine 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd rather have netboot.xyz builtin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Be mindful of security

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.