Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector

Category: other

Tags: assembly, bootloader, game-of-life, retro-computing, x86, vga

Score: 4.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 4, Utility: 3)

BootLife implements Conway's Game of Life in a 512-byte x86 boot sector, using VGA text mode memory as the simulation grid. It's an impressive feat of assembly golf and low-level systems programming, demonstrating extreme constraints and clever memory mapping rather than practical utility.

Target audience: systems programmers, retro computing enthusiasts, assembly learners

Repository: https://github.com/0xAX/BootLife · Assembly · ISC · 64 stars

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