README.md

Wordle for UEFI

Who says you need an operating system to play Wordle?

A clone of the popular word game, Wordle, for UEFI.

What's UEFI?

Let's start with the BIOS - which you might have heard of before. BIOS stands for Basic Input Output System and is a program that runs when you start your computer. It's in charge of reading and executing the bootloader from a drive, which then loads your operating system.

UEFI is a modern replacement for BIOS that most computers today run. It has more features and is way easier to program with! When your computer boots up, the UEFI firmware looks for a special EFI file to run (which might eventually load a full-fledged os). This project compiles to a .efi file that the UEFI firmware of your computer can run.

How do I run this?

On your computer

The UEFI image is built for x86_64 systems running UEFI class 2 or above. Basically any modern computer in use today should support this without problems. Also: Secure Boot will need to be disabled in the settings.

1. Download the zipped disk image file from here.

2. Flash the file to a disk

   • On Windows, you can use the rufus utility to save the disk image to a pen drive.

   • On Linux, you can use unzip and dd as shown below. Replace /dev/sdX with the path of the drive you would like to write to.

     unzip -p wordle-uefi.img.zip | sudo dd bs=512 of=/dev/sdX conv=fdatasync status=progress

3. You can now boot from the device you created!

On QEMU

Download, extract, and run using the following command:

qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu qemu64 -bios /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF.fd -drive file=wordle-uefi.img,if=ide,format=raw

To boot with UEFI on QEMU, you will need to install the edk2-ovmf package. Replace /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF.fd in the above command with the path where it is saved.

License

MIT

Contributing

Found a mistake or want to add a feature? Open an issue/PR!