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
Woah, I did not even know about this. Is there a video of this in action anywhere?
What?
“sorry, your hard drive is dead. Let’s play some asteroids!”
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.
It will distract you for a few minutes and thus reduce stress.
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.
That is an awesome idea lmao
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.
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.
I’d rather have netboot.xyz builtin.
Be mindful of security
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.
