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Nick Evanson

This 8-bit demake of Baldur's Gate 3 was made for a 40-year-old laptop, and it's a massive shot of pure 1980s gaming nostalgia

Demakes of the latest popular 3D games are often designed to emulate how they might look on hardware a few years old, sometimes a couple of decades. Taking Baldur's Gate 3 and getting it to run on something that's over 40 years old, though, is on a whole new level—but that's exactly what one ingenious software engineer has managed to do.

Strictly speaking, the project isn't an exact clone of BG3, nor could it be, as the hardware in question is a TRS-80 Model 100 computer—arguably the world's first laptop. With an 8-bit processor running at 2.4 MHz, a few kB of RAM, and a built-in 240 x 64 LCD display, there's absolutely no chance of running one of the most hardware-demanding games out there.

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