From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from petra.bitstream.net ([216.243.132.34]) by cvs.gentoo.org with smtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15ees9-0001yD-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2001 09:45:49 -0600 Received: (qmail 11398 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Sep 2001 15:45:30 -0000 From: Ben Beuchler To: Gentoo Dev List Message-ID: <20010905104529.B11232@emt-p.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Subject: [gentoo-dev] games on the boot disc Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Sep 5 09:46:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:45:30 -0500 X-Archives-Salt: 73be43b5-edbe-4cbb-b5da-4d58cb91aedc X-Archives-Hash: 768cf042f85fe861f424a3a7bf2e6391 In conversation with karltk, it occurred to us how incredibly cool it would be to have a couple of games to play while the system built itself. A quick peak at linuxassembly.org revealed that we could build two small games at only about a 4K diskspace penalty: This site has an asm version of 'snake' that compiles to 1.5K: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/ And here's a version of tetris that compiles to 2.4K: http://bordello.2y.net:8000/programs/tetris/ -Ben -- Ben Beuchler There is no spoon. insyte@emt-p.org -- The Matrix