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Running A Game On A PC With No System RAM (hackaday.com)
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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 14 points 14 hours ago

Ultimately the most viable method is to lean into the CPU’s many megabytes of cache and modify a CoreBoot BIOS image to simply not initialize system RAM.

As long as you can squeeze your software into the BIOS image and available CPU cache memory, you can run amazing software like the Snake clone in the video.

this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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