85-Byte Snake Game

In 1998 Assembly programmers who typically participated in Demo competitions did a series of size coding challenges. The first one was a Snake game (Nibbles), all in a DOS environment. The winning entry was 48 bytes long.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hugi.scene.org&#x2F;compo&#x2F;compoold.htm#compo1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hugi.scene.org&#x2F;compo&#x2F;compoold.htm#compo1</a><p>There were also some creative attempts that took less than 48 bytes and got disqualified. One of those encode the entire game in a series of empty folders using the folder names.<p>Edit: the original Hugo size coding competitions were created by Claus-Dieter Volko (Alias: Adok).<p>Edit: Typos

I would enjoy these posts more if they actually documented how the game implementation works, rather than just dumping an assembly file for the reader to figure out.<p>Also, I don&#x27;t find “fits into a QR code” all that impressive. QR codes can contain kilobytes of data (see: COVID certificates), which is considered a lot in the demo scene (e.g. Google &quot;256B demo&quot; to see some really impressive examples). I bet you could implement a fully graphical Snake clone in less than 1024 bytes.

Pretty cool, but also pretty unplayable (mainly due to the high speed of the snake) :D

I got to a size-5 snake and it stopped giving me apples. Cool though.

Pressing the direction you are going makes it stutter<p>Pressing opposite direction kills you<p>Inputs aren&#x27;t buffered so fast inputs are either dropped or kill you<p>Sometimes the snake just randomly grows??<p>Not a very good implementation

Always love these projects with restrictions, they remind me of .kkrieger(<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.kkrieger" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;.kkrieger</a>), an insanely tiny FPS.<p>I had also never seen a source code example for running an HTML embedded DOSBOX, so that was pretty interesting too.

Neat! Its pretty fast and restarts when you press the opposite arrow from where you are going - nerve wracking..

in dosbox it seems to run too fast to be playable and then hang<p>is this the right file?<p><pre><code> 00000000: 6800 b81f b9a0 0fb8 0300 cd10 bfd0 078d h............... 00000010: 76fc 0faf dd21 cb38 2f74 f788 0fe4 60bb v....!.8&#x2F;t....`. 00000020: 0400 241e 7a02 88cb 2414 7402 f7db 29df ..$.z...$.t...). 00000030: 39cf 77d3 d1fb 8d41 02f6 f120 e474 c838 9.w....A... .t.8 00000040: 2d74 c489 7e00 4545 380d 882d 74c4 26ad -t..~.EE8..-t.&amp;. 00000050: 9388 27eb c8 ..&#x27;.. </code></pre> oh i guess with `dosbox -c &#x27;cycles 1&#x27; .` it&#x27;s playable actually<p>i suspect it will still eventually hang tho

Somehow got 2 on mobile after way more trying than I’d like to admit

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Doesn&#x27;t run well on DOSBox-X. Gave me lots of these: &quot;LOG: 6454305 ERROR CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0&quot;<p>I&#x27;m on Intel Mac, btw.

Reminds me of the old Beagle Bros 1-line BASIC programs.