Invaders VS x86-bootloader

Compare Invaders vs x86-bootloader and see what are their differences.

Invaders

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

x86-bootloader

A BIOS bootloader for bare-metal x86 programs, written in 8086 assembly (by Joshua-Riek)
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Invaders x86-bootloader
2 1
509 24
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1.8 0.0
over 2 years ago over 1 year ago
Assembly Assembly
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

x86-bootloader

Posts with mentions or reviews of x86-bootloader. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Just got my bootloader and real mode kernel working on 80s hardware!
    1 project | /r/osdev | 14 Jan 2021
    I recently got my hands on a IBM PC Convertible (model 5140), rocking an Intel 8088 CPU and 256KB of RAM! I had to get my bootloader and kernel running on this thing, and after a few weeks of fixing up bugs its finally working!!! For those interested on the source code: FAT12/16 Bootloader (github.com) SuccOS: A hobby Operating System (github.com)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Invaders and x86-bootloader you can also consider the following projects:

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

FutureDOS - A futuristic DOS

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

sjasmplus - Command-line cross-compiler of assembly language for Z80 CPU.

book8088 - Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games

optromloader - IBM PC/Clone 8086+ floppy-loading of option roms.

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

BTAG - The Better Than Awful GRUB bootloader

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

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

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

Zero - 64 bit bootloader for Cyjon operating system.