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Boot Sector Snake
A text-mode Snake game that fits into the 512-byte boot sector of a storage device and targets the Intel 80186 instruction set.
About
This project was my entry point into low-level programming. The main challenge was the strict size limit: the entire game has to fit into a 512-byte boot sector.
To make that constraint more tangible, here is the complete game encoded as base64:
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+gB16MaHoMcDYesFgPkAdT5ZoxQAwOEEgMECix4UAIiPoMeAPhgAAHcC6wf+DhgA6VD/ix4WAIqPoMfA6QT
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2A+QV0HOscsQDrGLHpsgrrErEqsgLrDLHrsgTrBrHN6wKxulOJwyaIDyaIVwFbQ4PAAoH70AdypibHBgAAy
QcmxwaeALsHJscGAA/IBybHBp4PvAfDgPkIdBGA+QR0EYD5AnQRgPkBdA/rEIPoUOsLg8BQ6wZI6wNA6wDD
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Tags & Technologies
- x86 assembly
- OSDev
- Low-level programming