LNlnyan·Aug 12, 2023Submission
TetrOS: Tetris that fits into the boot sector (2016)
1 points · Open discussiondaniel-e
tetros
Assembly2016–2023
daniel-e / tetros
tetros
Tetris that fits into the boot sector.
5Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
780GitHub stars
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What it is
Tetris that fits into the boot sector.
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Observed mentions: 2016-10-04 14:55:20 UTC to 2023-08-12 06:40:30 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesAlong that line..
• SectorForth - https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth - sectorforth is a 16-bit x86 Forth that fits in a 512-byte boot sector.
• TetrOS - https://github.com/daniel-e/tetros - Tetris that fits into the boot sector.
• BootMine - https://github.com/io12/BootMine - Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector
• Invaders game in 512 bytes - https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders
The author has written a book called Programming Boot Sector Games.
> A crash course into 8086/8088 assembler programming, in an easy way with practice at each step. You will learn how to use the registers, move data, do arithmetic, and handle text and graphics. You can run these programs on any PC machine and no program exceeds 512 bytes of executable code!
https://nanochess.org/store.html
Examples from the book: https://github.com/nanochess
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