flappy-512
Flappy Bird in a 512 byte boot sector
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GITHUB · launched Oct 13, 2026 · 20 upvotes (top 57%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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No Writing a playable game in 512 bytes of x86 assembly to fit into an MBR boot sector requires extreme assembly micro-optimization, deep BIOS interrupt knowledge, and manual cycle counting.
What it would actually take: The project requires writing 16-bit real-mode x86 assembly, interfacing directly with BIOS interrupts (INT 10h for VGA graphics, INT 16h/09h for keyboard handling, INT 1Ah/08h for timer/ticks). The entire executable code, game loop, collision detection, and graphics routines must be optimized down to under 510 bytes plus the 0xAA55 boot signature. This demands deep low-level firmware engineering and extreme demoscene-style size coding expertise.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1673 of 2971 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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- 1416258158
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- Product
- flappy-512
- Website domain
- github.com
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- Upvotes percentile
- 0.43
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- AI summary
- flappy bird game in a 512-byte boot sector
- Manually corrected
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