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My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II

My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II

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Comments (47)

  • wowczarek
    Good to see I'm not the only weirdo still using Midnight Commander.
  • xracy
    This is really cool and impressive... but relatedly...Has anyone figured out what the minimum specs for Quake are?I feel like the first thing everyone does with a computer is to determine whether or not it can run quake, and I'm just wondering what the like, most simple computer that could exist is, that could run quake?
  • unethicalinfo
    Cool write up, getting initial bill shock from 2 layer to the 4+ layer PCBs is a rite of passage :)
  • rasz
    I find first version https://github.com/petrmikheev/endeavour much more impressive. Dude somehow managed to get 100MHz DDR1 ram working on 2 layer board with no ground reference :o Its one of those things you only attempt when crazy or dont know any better. Anyone with EE experience will tell you its impossible, like flying commercial grade SoCs in satellites :) Mad lad.
  • wadewatts
    Section 6 where you link to Quake II is 404. (at the time of this post)URL: https://blog.mikhe.ch/quake2-on-fpga/part6.md404 File not foundThe site configured at this address does not contain the requested file.If this is your site, make sure that the filename case matches the URL as well as any file permissions. For root URLs (like http://example.com/) you must provide an index.html file.Read the full documentation for more information about using GitHub Pages.
  • UncleOxidant
    Cool! Have you considered offering this board on Crowd Supply or similar? There don't seem to be many boards available for Efinix FPGAs.
  • markus_zhang
    This is very impressive. How did you learn to design a real computer, not the toy ones a lot of people made? I read part 1 and part 2 and looks like you just “thrown in” Ethernet and other stuffs and it was done. Really hope to learn from the process, thanks!
  • argulane
    That's some mad dedication to go from kicad schematics to running Quake. Very impressive!
  • sznio
  • bee_rider
    Quake 2 was the one with the clever approximate inverse square root code, right? I wonder (especially since there’s an instruction nowadays to draw inspiration from), can you implement it “in hardware,” so to speak?
  • klodolph
    The diagonal traces and the empty spaces are throwing me for a loop. Is this the autorouter in action? (But… still, nice work.)
  • brcmthrowaway
    With Claude, a software engineer can now be a hardware engineer.
  • phendrenad2
    Hey, routing your own length-matched traces, nice. Is this Altium?
  • tkapin
    Very impressive project!
  • nacozarina
    Quake II had the best fn soundtrack.
  • absynth
    Another board has become Frag complete. Important milestone!