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Invaders

Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)

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Invaders game in 512 bytes (boot sector)

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-06-05 02:14:54 UTC to 2025-12-24 15:21:50 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 3 submissions, 3 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC633
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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20wenty·Dec 24, 2025Submission

Show HN: I wrote a Christmas-themed Space Invaders clone in 8086 Assembly

I've had a goal for the past three years to learn Assembly language. This December, I finally put some real effort into learning the language. I followed the tutorials in Oscar Toledo G's "Programming Boot Sector Games" and used Gemini as a tutor to help explain the concepts I was stuck on. It was tempting at points to vibe code some of the trickiest pieces, but I found resisting the temptation and using Gemini just to be an expert tutor to answer my ignorant questions brought back the joy of coding again. The result is a Christmas-themed Space Invaders clone written in 8086 Assembly. The code isn't perfect, and neither are my line-by-line comments, but it's a good exercise if anyone else is trying to learn a language. The game compiles to a .com file and runs in DOSBox. I'm not trying to fit it into a boot sector (512 bytes) like the ori
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ginal tutorial (https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders/blob/master/invaders.a...), so my code assembles to more verbose (around 700 bytes).
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