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The coreboot team has added a new payload called coreDOOM in its firmware update 4.17. With that, it is now possible to play the classic first-person shooter DOOM from the firmware of supported motherboards.
CoreDOOM is according to the GitHub-pagina of the project a port of doomgeneric in the form of a coreboot payload. It comes with a data file of the shareware version of DOOM by default, but users can add their own so-called .wad files to play other DOOM content if they wish, as long as it all fits on the motherboard’s storage space.
It is important to know that doomgeneric omits sound support to make porting easier. In addition, the maker of coreDOOM states that USB keyboards are not supported; only PS/2 input works. Also, there is currently no support for saves nor a config. The system also crashes when you exit the game.
Volgens Phoronix coreDOOM has been tested in a QEMU environment and on real hardware. Unfortunately, neither the coreboot team nor the coreDOOM developer make available images of coreDOOM in action. Version 4.17 from coreboot also supports some new Chromebooks as well as devices from Clevo, Dell, HP and Star Labs. Tweakers published a history story about corebootwhich is an alternative to bios and UEFI.
DOOM is thanks to its age, its fan-favorite and the ubiquity of its source ports a game that is regularly ported to other platforms ‘because it can’. Notable examples of this are DOOM in Minecraft, on a 1998 Kodak camera and on the touch bar of a MacBook Pro.
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