BTAG vs Invaders

BTAG

The Better Than Awful GRUB bootloader (by google0101-ryan)

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Invaders

Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector) (by nanochess)

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BTAG		Invaders
	Project
1	Mentions	2
1	Stars	509
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
Apache License 2.0	License	-

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BTAG

Posts with mentions or reviews of BTAG. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-09.

Help on bootloader
3 projects | /r/osdev | 9 Aug 2021

BTAG on GitHub

Invaders

Posts with mentions or reviews of Invaders. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-11.

Pi number calculator in 146 bytes of 8088 machine code
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2022

The author has other interesting bootable games, like:
- https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders (Invaders)
- https://github.com/nanochess/bricks (bricks and paddle)
- https://github.com/nanochess/bootRogue (Rogue)
If you like learning assembly language/OSDev, his repos are a must to be bookmarked.
Ask HN: What are some impressive software projects that fit in 512 bytes?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BTAG and Invaders you can also consider the following projects:

x86-bootloader - A BIOS bootloader for bare-metal x86 programs, written in 8086 assembly

hello - A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS

BootProg - FAT12/16/32 Bootsector for .COMs/.EXEs

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

SegelBoot - :sailboat: x86 32-bit bootloader for my final presentation exam

Cyjon - A simple, clean code, multi-tasking kernel written in pure Assembly language for 64-bit processors from the AMD64 family.

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

grub2 - Ongoing downstream work on grub2, including Fedora and RHEL. ***This is not upstream; please send code upstream first***

Pillman - Pillman boot sector game, a yellow thing eats pills and is chased by monsters.

Emulatrix - Emulatrix - JavaScript and WebAssembly Emulator - Sega Genesis, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, MAME32, DOSBox and Virtual Machines

bootloader - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware [Moved to: https://github.com/encse/mandelbrot]