book8088 vs Invaders

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Examples from my book Programming Boot Sector Games (by nanochess)

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

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book8088		Invaders
	Project
1	Mentions	2
47	Stars	509
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	1.8
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	-

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book8088

Posts with mentions or reviews of book8088. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.

Ask HN: What are some impressive software projects that fit in 512 bytes?
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing book8088 and Invaders you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

tetros - Tetris that fits into the boot sector.

mandelbrot - Mandelbrot set drawers for vintage hardware

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

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.

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

Airtest - UI Automation Framework for Games and Apps