NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [video]

Re:NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [... by 0x0 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @02:25PM (#17458726)

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. :)

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Re:NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [... by therein on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @03:14PM (#17458961)

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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Re:NES Emulator on the UEFI Shell Running Super Mario Bros [... by gcb0 on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:11PM (#17476276)

if you are on the bios level you can do anything. But the bare bones nature of old BIOS plus the space limitation of them would make this very difficult.

Now that EFI on the cheapest Staples' laptop is 10x more capable then the most expensive personal computer of 1999, this is not only possible but easy and helped by ton of EFI libraries.

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