Is there a scene/community of "boot into game" for current CPUs? (programming.dev)

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I'm looking up for communities or scenes whose purpose is making games that you play from bootup. Not necessarily boot sector games (stuff that has to fit in 512 bytes), but things that would behave much like cartridges in old consoles, where the hardware boots straight into the game.

Put another way, games that "are the OS", either for x86 or ARM. My search engine-fu didn't manage to find anything other than boot sector games and several Batocera guides.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is the technical distinction of booting as an OS an important one, or are you just interested in games that boot up very quickly, such as in the cartridge days of the N64 and so on?

I'll admit, I still think games could do a lot more on the latter. It's still a tragedy to me that so much wait time is devoted to the company logos for things like Speedtree or Criware.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My interest is in sidestepping operating systems entirely, not just loading fast, so I'd say the distinction is important

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