486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board

Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by devinbernosky on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:00PM (#45233556)

so this will run half life 2 if I'm not mistaken?

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Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by Philpax on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:57PM (#45234854)

For those not aware, this is a reference to an audience comment at the HL2 E3 2003 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63Q&t=200s

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Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by accrual on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:14PM (#45234556)

Half-Life 2 was but a twinkle in Valve's eye when the 486 arch was introduced in 1989. ;)

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Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by ant6n on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:37PM (#45234711)

Could maybe run HL1. Maybe.

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Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by sitzkrieg on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:05PM (#45234916)

some og binaries with software rendering would probably slide show it along nicely

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Re:486Tang – 486 on a credit-card-sized FPGA board by pezezin on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:16AM (#45248053)

Nop, HL1 uses the Quake engine that requires a fast FPU. The minimum CPU for any kind of decent performance is a Pentium.

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