A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
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#2That's the kind of thing I come here for! Tiny hacks of all sorts.
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#3There's almost as much header information as there is code!
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#4I was confused as to how you could represent a bootable CD image in printable characters. It turns out that you can't. This is a tweet of a perl script which creates a cd.iso file that you can then boot from. The perl script significantly decompresses the data in the tweet.
That said, this is a playable game in around 60 bytes of actual data which is impressive.
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#6I remember x86 real mode back in the day. Pretty hideous and hacky compared to what we have now.
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#7Wow, that's pretty leet.
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#8Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amateur hour...
/s (Just kidding this is actually super cool.)
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#9I remember x86 real mode back in the day. Pretty hideous and hacky compared to what we have now.
What's real mode?
Re: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
#10I was confused as to how you could represent a bootable CD image in printable characters. It turns out that you can't. This is a tweet of a perl script which creates a cd.iso file that you can then boot from. The perl script significantly decompresses the data in the tweet. That said, this is a playable game in around 60 bytes of actual data which is impressive.
Not CD images, but there is DOS C compiler generating executables with only printable characters (and also no self-modifying code that could contain non-printable characters)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/abc/paper.txt (view in monospace font, 160 character lines)