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.
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:
lmao coreboot/linux programmers are so ahead of time
What?
“sorry, your hard drive is dead. Let’s play some asteroids!”
That is an awesome idea lmao
Let’s add it to Systemd. That way we can play games while we wait for systemd to load
cant make it more bloated than it already is
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.
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.
I’d rather have netboot.xyz builtin.
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.
