Zero-dependency Radeon R500

3D graphics with no dependencies: no game engine, no OpenGL, no Direct3D, no Vulkan, just direct hardware/register accesses.

All screenshots are Radeon R500 framebuffer captures. The videos are DVI captures of the R500 video output.

Detailed technical commentary is published on the project blog. Complete source code is also published (all graphics-producing code is in the drm directory).

The "pumpkin man" model was drawn by slippyice in his first 3 days of learning how to use Blender.

Hardware requirements:

• Graphics card: ATI Radeon R500 (X1300-X1950)
  • all other graphics cards outside this narrow range are completely incompatible
• Monitor: 1600x1200
  • support for other display resolutions is not implemented