Invaders vs mandelbrot

Invaders

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

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mandelbrot

Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware (by encse)

Retrocomputing 16-bit Bootloader C64

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mandelbrot.csokavar.hu

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Invaders		mandelbrot
	Project
2	Mentions	1
509	Stars	15
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	2.8
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	MIT 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

mandelbrot

Posts with mentions or reviews of mandelbrot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Someone could run this for me?
1 project | /r/c64 | 18 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Invaders and mandelbrot 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.

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

x86-kernel - A hobby kernel developed from scratch using i8086 assembly

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

gridrunner - Gridrunner (1982) by Jeff Minter

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

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

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

AGI2_16bit_DOS - Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) v2.440 Game Engine for DOS (16-bit)

c64_asm_book_listings - Listings from Commodore 64 Assembly books