On: Bootable minesweeper game in a 512-byte boot sector

[davidhyde]

This is a very good series if you want to build it in rust. https://os.phil-opp.com/

That minesweeper game seems to only use the vga buffer and that blog series explains that tech very well.

[meithecatte → davidhyde]

I doubt you'd be able to fit compiled Rust into 512 bytes, though.

[davidhyde → meithecatte]

True, fitting a game and a boot loader into 512 bytes is very impressive. You can build pretty tiny rust binaries if you don’t link the std library though. Check this out for some tricks: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

That blog post explains the vga buffer quite nicely so you should also be able to use the same information when writing assembler.

[steveklabnik → meithecatte]

The smallest Rust binary that does something that I've ever seen is 145 bytes https://github.com/tormol/tiny-rust-executable

(I saw a wasm one get a bit lower but that isn't really apples to apples)