Invaders vs bootRogue

Invaders

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

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bootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector (510 bytes) (by nanochess)

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Invaders		bootRogue
	Project
2	Mentions	1
509	Stars	98
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	10.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 4 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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

bootRogue

Posts with mentions or reviews of bootRogue. 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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

pi - Pi number calculator using 8088 assembly language

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

bricks - A game of bricks and paddle on one boot sector (510 bytes)

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

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

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]

sectorforth - sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector.

vaccination-game - Web game with the goal to eradicate a disease before it spread through the population.

paddle-game - Personal challenge to create a custom controller for a custom application.