While it is an impressive feat, it should give pause to thought about how complicated the modern "BIOS" has become...
Did you even watch the video? There was no sound. Therefore its only half-impressive at best.
NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's the point.
I thought it was the opposite of the point, that modern BIOSes had evolved to make this possible, but I think a non-modern legacy BIOS would work just as well. :)
The question isn't whether it is possible or not. For instance, this emulator, had it really wanted, could have used the UEFI API to do networking given the NIC is recognized at UEFI shell.
Doing this in BIOS would require you to implement a lot more from bottom up.
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#13While it is an impressive feat, it should give pause to thought about how complicated the modern "BIOS" has become...
Did you even watch the video? There was no sound. Therefore its only half-impressive at best.
Why was this down modded? Emulators that can't emulate 8 bit audio are acceptable? I guess I am in some fantasyland.
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#14https://imgur.com/gallery/bLRM9VA
I played it on the VMWARE too
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you even watch the video? There was no sound. Therefore its only half-impressive at best.
Why was this down modded? Emulators that can't emulate 8 bit audio are acceptable? I guess I am in some fantasyland.
Do you see the irony here? You're bothered that people are dismissing your 10-second comment in which you dismiss someone else's hard work.
Re: NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]
#17The vertical video chops off half of the screen and uses only 1/3th of youtube's space when it could have easily been horizontal
Other than that, neat, and good news that UEFI is programmable like that!
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#18So, does this mean I could potentially have a refind like bootloader where I select boot disks through some sort of "warp zone"?
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#19So, does this mean I could potentially have a refind like bootloader where I select boot disks through some sort of "warp zone"?
Beat the game to turn on your PC
Re: NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]
#20While it is an impressive feat, it should give pause to thought about how complicated the modern "BIOS" has become...
The BIOS was originally supposed to be a nice hardware abstraction layer to be used everywhere - akin to system calls now. If the BIOS was rudimentary it was only because of the limits of the machine - not the intent of the designer.