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by rixed 3 days ago
Remind me of a similar quest of mine from... 15 years ago or so. Porting Quake on a GP2X handheld with no GPU, not even an FPU, run by an ARMv4. I could not compress the textures enough at the time so you could play only for a few seconds before the memory became too fragmented and the game stopped. But I managed to port a few other games. The PlayDate is a supoercomputer compared to an ARMv4 from 15years ago, but that antique GP2X was at least capable of true-color :). Should still have the code somewhere on github, but that's probably completely unusable on any hardware available in 2026. Maybe the "opengl" compatibility layer could still be useful though?