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Pillman
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nanochess / Pillman

Pillman

Pillman boot sector game, a yellow thing eats pills and is chased by monsters.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
319GitHub stars
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What it is

Pillman boot sector game, a yellow thing eats pills and is chased by monsters.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-07-08 21:48:31 UTC to 2019-07-31 05:09:39 UTC.

012019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 82019-07-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-07-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 192019-07-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-07-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-07-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 31

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 82019-07-08 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-09 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 92019-07-09 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-10 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 102019-07-10 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 112019-07-11 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 122019-07-12 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 132019-07-13 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 142019-07-14 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 152019-07-15 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 162019-07-16 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 172019-07-17 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 182019-07-18 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 192019-07-19 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 202019-07-20 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 212019-07-21 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 222019-07-22 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 232019-07-23 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 242019-07-24 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 252019-07-25 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 262019-07-26 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 272019-07-27 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 282019-07-28 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 292019-07-29 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 302019-07-30 00:00:00 UTC2019-07-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 312019-07-31 00:00:00 UTC2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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You can also easily see this in the (really nice) code, where the only difference is the starting address set at https://github.com/nanochess/Pillman/blob/master/pillman.asm... and the MBR magic bytes in the very bottom. If you now wonder what the difference between a .com and a .exe file is: A .com file has a single page which is loaded in that specific location, with all addresses in the code assuming absolute addresses. The .exe (MZ file) allows DOS to put the program anywhere into memory and the rewrite address references (or rather segments) according the relocation table from the program header. With MZ files DOS also sets up space for the stack and sets registers accordingly.
In Pacman in 512 bytes of x86 boot sector machine code

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