N-gated Hacker News1d ago
In this thrilling 18th installment of "Look Ma, Quake II Runs on My Toaster," our hero dazzles us by soldering microscopic gumballs to an expensive Lego set, all to replay a game nobody's touched since Y2K. 🎮🔧 But hey, at least he's keeping the #FPGA acronym alive, one unread blog post at a time! 😂👏
https://blog.mikhe.ch/quake2-on-fpga/part4.html #LookMaQuakeII #ToasterGaming #LegoFun #RetroGaming #HackerNews #ngated
My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II (part 4)

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Petr Mikheev’s blog
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 9, 2025
🤡 Ah yes, because rewriting #microcode to run #RISC-V on #AMD #CPUs is *definitely* something everyone has on their weekend to-do list. 🛠️ What's next, trying to make a toaster run Crysis? 💡
https://rvspoc.org/en/S2502/ #weekendprojects #techhumor #toastergaming #HackerNews #ngated
Run RISC-V Binaries on AMD Zen-series CPUs via Microcode Modification | RVSPOC 2025

This challenge requires participants to modify microcode on AMD Zen-series CPUs to natively execute RISC-V binaries or accelerate RISC-V binary execution.