Invaders vs tetros

Invaders

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

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tetros

Tetris that fits into the boot sector. (by daniel-e)

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Invaders		tetros
	Project
2	Mentions	4
509	Stars	748
-	Growth	-
1.8	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 7 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	MIT License

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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

tetros

Posts with mentions or reviews of tetros. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.

Tetros: Tetris that fits into the boot sector (2016)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
Ask HN: What are some impressive software projects that fit in 512 bytes?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022
AMD EPYC "Milan-X" specifications leak out, up to 64 cores, 280W TDP and 768MB L3 cache - VideoCardz.com
1 project | /r/Amd | 16 Sep 2021

Start this off with the bootloader; https://github.com/daniel-e/tetros
Mm. I'm pretty sure I'm right.
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 22 Aug 2021

Like this one

What are some alternatives?

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

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

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

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

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

BootMine - Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector

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]

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