Idk how many other games you can do this with but I thought it was interesting.

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    5 months ago

    “Running from within a motherboard BIOS” is waaaaay different than running from BIOS (aka Direct Boot). Before Windows, many games were playable by booting directly into them.

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      5 months ago

      Before Windows, many games were playable by booting directly into them.

      That’s not true. You’d boot up which loads the bios, which initializes your hardware, and then a Disk operating system like MS-DOS is loaded. From there you’d load your programs from a command prompt.

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        I think you’re right in inferring that OP is confusing DOS with BIOS but technically, plenty of old computers and early video game consoles like the Atari 2600 didn’t have a BIOS and would immediately execute the code on the tape, disk, or cartridge. Some old computers had bootstrapping but that’s not really BIOS in the IBM sense.