Top 6 Assembly HacktoberFest Projects

Apollo-11

127 56,371 4.6 Assembly

Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code for the command and lunar modules.

Project mention: Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-20

hello-world

4 10,620 5.7 Assembly

Hello world in every computer language. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this, make sure to see contributing.md for contribution instructions!
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
rav1e

70 3,573 9.2 Assembly

The fastest and safest AV1 encoder.

Project mention: Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-01

Sure. You'll see it very often in codec implementations. From rav1e, a fast AV1 encoder mostly written in Rust: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/tree/master/src/x86
Large portions of the algorithm have been translated into assembly for ARM and x86. Shaving even a couple percent off something like motion compensation search will add up to meaningful gains.
Or the current reference implementation of JPEG: https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/tree/main/sim...

LADX-Disassembly

10 812 8.0 Assembly

Disassembly of Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening DX

Project mention: The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

https://github.com/zladx/LADX-Disassembly Could start with a fork of this

sebasic4

1 60 8.2 Assembly

SE BASIC - A free BASIC interpreter written in Z80 assembly language
akmw

3 21 3.4 Assembly

Disassembly of the original Alex Kidd in Miracle World

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).