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Microcontrollers have gotten sooo powerful. I started out using 16 MHz arduinos but today my favorite one (Teensy 4.0/4.1) runs at 600 MHz and can be over clocked to 1 GHz.
Just last week I got a teensy 4.1 and I'm impressed, it even includes 3 channels for CAN communication so I've been using for some work projects
a 32 bit dual core cpu is probably way more powerful than the low-mhz scale one it originally ran on?
Tomb raider 1996 was a primary title for the Sega Saturn which used hitachi superH 32bit RISC processors at 28mhz and 2m RAM. A little more digging lists the minimum PC requirements for the DOS/win9x version to be a Pentium 60 and 8m RAM.
Not even counting that overall instructions per clock has increased tremendously since the 90s, yeah, there's plenty of power in an esp32 at 400mhz lol
The port is here: https://github.com/alexkid77/openlara_esp32p4
and the author's name is Alejandro Villegas Alonso.
But because he posted a video of his project on YouTube, PCGamer reduces him to the name of the platform he posted on: "YouTuber."
The author of this article will henceforth be referred to as "PCGamerer."
hardware creator Alejandro Villegas Alonso shared a clip of classic Tomb Raider running from a low-power chip
He’s fully credited in the article text. Perfectly normal to not give a full name in a title unless they’re a well known public figure (and even then it’s often shortened to one name if possible).
Yeah but YouTuber is a weird way to describe someone just because that’s where you saw their project. His account has 200 subscribers. He could equally be referred to as a GitHubber or Linkediner.
Personally i would have just said “engineer” or “programmer.”
Old rombus boobs is back in 2026
Women cosplaying Lara Croft by stuffing a box up her shirt will never stop being funny.
no body shaming
Lol I've got a esp32-p4 and I struggled to get the included example working. So. We're basically the same.
It's a very impressive chip but Tomb Raider, wow that's fantastic
I wonder about the graphics arrangement? An ESP32 doesn't usually have video out.
This is built on a P4 dev board with the screen attached, likely over QSPI or RGB888. either a buncha wires or a more buncha wires.
You can drive screen output via the gpio pins quite easily. You can even do VGA output via I²S!
I did not know I^2^S could do that. I thought it was digital audio.
VGA is basically just a bunch of analog audio signals that, when timed correctly, happens to describe a field of pixels.
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