Running Quake on an FPGA (Custom MRISC32 CPU) [video]

Re:Running Quake on an FPGA (Custom MRISC32 CPU) [video] by sylefeb on Thursday January 18, 2024 @04:42PM (#39048206)

Very, very impressive works, both MRISC32 and FuryGPU (which I just learned about, love the idea of a FPGA-retro-GPU that could go in a modern computer!). It's hard to overstate the amount of passion, care and technical expertise that go into such projects.

I'm the author of 'q5k' (Quake viewer in 5K LUTs) and so I wanted to say Hi to my fellow Quake-on-FPGA enthusiasts. Thanks for the mention, and looking forward to the next steps of your projects!

PS: Q5k is of course much, much slower (runs on a small $10 ice40 up5k FPGA), and only a viewer. The renderer is custom using fixed-point only. Unlikely I'll be ever able to run the full game at any decent speed, but I'm surely going to try :) For anyone interested, here's the repo of q5k and doomchip-onice: https://github.com/sylefeb/tinygpus

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Re:Running Quake on an FPGA (Custom MRISC32 CPU) [video] by mbitsnbites on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:22PM (#39048699)

Thanks a bunch for the link! I love how you fit a quake renderer onto such a small device (having a demo scene size coding history, I enjoy the challenge of a constrained target and I'd like to do something similar with the MRISC32 ISA some time - e.g. an "MRISC32-A0").

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