Programming Boot Sector Games

by Oscar Toledo Gutierrez

A crash course into 8086/8088 assembler programming, in an easy way with practice at each step. You will learn how to use the registers, move data, do arithmetic, and handle text and graphics. You can run these programs on any PC machine and no program exceeds 512 bytes of executable code! The example programs include: - Guess the number. - Tic-Tac-Toe game. - Text graphics. - Mandelbrot set. - F-Bird game. - Invaders game. - Pillman game. - Toledo Atomchess. - bootBASIC language.

Genres: Programming

278 pages, Paperback

Published July 27, 2019

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whoa... a chess game with AI look-ahead in 383 bytes, an implementation of BASIC in a half of a K, there's some incredible assembly language examples in this book. Looking forward to book 2.