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I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right?
by queuebert 6mo ago
I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right?
- fluoridation 6mo agoWhat 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.
- sedatk 6mo agoBIOS 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 5mo agoVESA 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.
- snazz 6mo agoYou can do substantially more in UEFI than NES-level games. (See https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Support.html#graphics-output-protocol https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.9_A/12_Protocols_Console_Suppo...)