Bare-metal Tetris duel

A couple of weeks ago, we featured a first-year undergraduate project from Imperial College in London: a bare-metal port of StarFox to the Raspberry Pi. It’s stupendously good; even more so when you realise that the people behind it are 18 and 19 years old. I discovered that a second group from the very same class has another bare-metal doozy of a gaming project running on the Pi: head-to-head Tetris. The team says you’re seeing: - 4000 lines of documented ARM assembly code - Optimised driver for a NES controller connected via GPIO - Asynchronous networking for two Pis connected via GPIO - Doubly buffered rendering logic for HDMI output - Custom ARMv6 assembler written from scratch in C (released as binary only. What’s in the water down in South Kensington? I don’t think we’ve seen this much assembly language since…this time last year, when we found an Imperial College bare-metal chess project. Everything you need to replicate the Tetris setup is available at GitHub. Thanks to Han Qiao, Piotr Chabierski, Michał Sienkiewicz and Utsav Tiwary for a really lovely piece of work.

URL: http://www.raspberrypi.org/bare-metal-tetris-duel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bare-metal-tetris-duel