Invaders

Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)

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Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)

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> though I suppose it doesn't do the BASIC thing What's this then? bootOS programs: (Oh yes! we have software support) fbird https://github.com/nanochess/fbird Pillman https://github.com/nanochess/pillman invaders https://github.com/nanochess/invaders bootBASIC https://github.com/nanochess/bootBASIC And one can test the image: "find a pre-designed disk image along this Git with the name osall.img"

What an amazing story, thanks for sharing! I just watched some of TV interviews with the family and saw the rest of his work, and it's pretty amazing. Check out Invaders in 512 bytes [1][2], or Aardvark game for the Atari 2600 ([3]). Also seems he has just self-published a book (as of July 27): Do you would like more details on the inner workings? This program is fully commented in my new book Programming Boot Sector Games and you'll also find a 8086/8088 crash course! Now available from Lulu [4] [1] https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNZfw6jShng [4] http://www.lulu.com/shop/oscar-toledo-gutierrez/programming-...

Or the OP downloaded the HTML page[1] instead of the raw file. The HTML for a signed-out user is about 64kB. 1: https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders/blob/master/invaders.c...