Invaders vs hello

Invaders

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

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hello

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

Asm Dos hello-world ms-dos X86

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Invaders		hello
	Project
2	Mentions	7
509	Stars	140
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	10.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year 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

hello

Posts with mentions or reviews of hello. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.

A 23-byte "hello, world" program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 30 Oct 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 30 Oct 2022
A 28-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 30 Oct 2022

7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2022

Thanks for pointing out the missing attribution. Added a credits section to the README here: https://github.com/susam/hello#credits

What are some alternatives?

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

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes

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

reboot - A 5-byte reboot program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

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

dmd - dmd D Programming Language compiler

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

FutureDOS - A futuristic DOS

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

Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-ASM- - It's amazing what you find when you retrieve a box of floppy disks from the attic!