Developer Creates Bare-Metal Game System for Raspberry Pi 3 Using AArch64 Assembly
Baker's choice. Dense with flavour, light on filler.
Summary
The article discusses [Inkbox]'s project to program bare-metal games for a Raspberry Pi 3, running games on cartridges without an operating system. It explores the philosophy that OS overhead is unnecessary for gaming systems, drawing parallels to classic consoles like the NES that operated without an OS. The project involves running AArch64 assembly code directly on the hardware in a dodecahedron-shaped game system.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledOperating systems are great things to have for general purpose computing, but sometimes they can just get in the way.
There's RAM overhead and processor cycles required for all that operating, after all.
The NES certainly did well enough without an OS, as did its various successors for several console generations.
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