Invaders vs Pillman

Invaders

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

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Pillman

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

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Invaders		Pillman
	Project
2	Mentions	1
509	Stars	316
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	1.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	-

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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

Pillman

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My new project: dream86, an 8086/PC emulator in Rust
2 projects | /r/EmuDev | 31 Dec 2021

At the moment, the emulator can run a small 512 byte game (pillman, https://github.com/nanochess/Pillman). What do you think can be the next steps? I'd like to refactor the CPU code in primis, and then tackle some more small .COM programs, and then maybe go with booting DOS and bigger programs.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

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

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

Zero - 64 bit bootloader for Cyjon operating system.

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

FutureDOS - A futuristic DOS

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

boot2duino - The World's Most Useless Arduino Platform.

x86-bootloader - 💻 A very simple x86 bootloader