nanochess / Pillman

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Pillman game in 512 bytes (boot sector or COM file) by Oscar Toledo G. Jul/08/2019

http://nanochess.org https://github.com/nanochess

This a game about a yellow man eating pills in 512 bytes. It can be run as a COM file or put into a boot sector of a floppy disk to be run.

Move with arrow keys, press Esc to exit (only COM file).

It's compatible with 8088 (the original IBM PC). So you now have to look for a 8-bit compatible VGA card if you want to run it over original hardware ;)

A small video of the game running under emulation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBgsXOq11o

If you want to assemble it, you must download the Netwide Assembler (nasm) from www.nasm.us

Use this command line:

nasm -f bin pillman.asm -Dcom_file=1 -o pillman.com nasm -f bin pillman.asm -Dcom_file=0 -o pillman.img

Tested with VirtualBox for Mac OS X running Windows XP running this game, it also works with DosBox and probably with qemu:

qemu-system-x86_64 -fda pillman.img

Enjoy it!

THE BOOK <<

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!

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eBook https://nanochess.org/store.html

These are some of the example programs documented profusely in the book:

• Guess the number.
• Tic-Tac-Toe game.
• Text graphics.
• Mandelbrot set.
• F-Bird game.
• Invaders game.
• Pillman game.
• Toledo Atomchess.
• bootBASIC language.