MNT Reform Gaming Thread

I’ll leave this here, in case other people are interested in running ancient games :slight_smile:

After much trouble getting Quake2 to render fast and correctly on the RK3588, I finally found a combo that works well. See here:

Long story short: I just needed the latest version of Yamagi Quake II and the Vulkan renderer. It was that simple :slight_smile:

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In case anybody is interested, I just spent 3 solid days playing my favorite 80s and 90s Atari, Amiga and DOS games on the RK3588, in the Hatari, FS-UAE and Dosbox emulators respectively, and it was pretty much flawless. The only problem I encountered was the sound in Another World on Amiga, which goes funky after a few minutes, but I don’t think it’s due to the machine.

I guess this is not news to people who are into retro-gaming, but it’s been a long time since I played those games from my youth (long enough to remember that direct CPU emulation just wasn’t quite feasible at real-time target speed on the last machine I tried it :slight_smile:) and now it’s totally seamless. That “slow” ARM CPU is plenty fast enough to interpret 8088-to-386 code or 68K code many times faster than the original targets. Amazing!

But hey, maybe I’m easily impressed :slight_smile:

Still, if you like old games, the Reform doesn’t disappoint.

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Retro games are the future.

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