| ▲ | queuebert 8 hours ago |
| I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right? |
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| ▲ | snazz 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You can do substantially more in UEFI than NES-level games. (See https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Suppo...) |
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| ▲ | fluoridation 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What do you mean by "BIOS chip"? Like, the flash memory that stores the motherboard's firmware? I don't think that contains any processing elements. |
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| ▲ | sedatk 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | BIOS can only manage VESA which is much much slower than the capabilities of a modern GPU, so they might have meant graphical performance in regards to that. | | |
| ▲ | jasomill 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | VESA BIOS Extensions support direct framebuffer access in protected mode, and I don't imagine the lack of accelerated 2D operations would be a practical bottleneck when implementing NES-style graphics on modern PCs. UEFI GOP additionally supports accelerated bitblt, but again YAGNI for 2D game performance at reasonable framerates on a modern PC. |
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