Assembly-Snake

This is a minimalistic Snake game written in x86 Assembly, designed to run directly from the Boot Sector (512 bytes). The game demonstrates how to program at a low level, interacting directly with hardware without any operating system. It's a fun and educational project for anyone interested in bootloaders, retro programming, or assembly language.

Build & Run

Requirements

• NASM: The Netwide Assembler for assembling the code.
• QEMU: An emulator for testing the bootable game.
• Optional: genisoimage for creating ISO files.

Building with Make

To build the binary (.bin), disk image (.img), and ISO file (.iso), simply run: make all

Building without Make

Linux and macOS

1. Create the build directory: mkdir -p build
2. Assemble the code into a binary file: nasm -f bin src/snake.asm -o build/snake.bin (Ensure NASM is installed on your system.)
3. Create additional formats:
   • Disk image:cp build/snake.bin build/snake.img
   • ISO file:genisoimage -o build/iso/snake.iso -b snake.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table build/bin/ (Ensure genisoimage is installed.)

Windows

Who needs Windows?

Running with Make

You can choose between the following commands to run the game in QEMU:

1. Run the binary directly: make run-bin
2. Run the disk image: make run-img
3. Run the ISO file: make run-iso

Running without Make

Linux, macOS, and Windows

You can manually run the game in QEMU using one of these commands:

1. Run the binary directly: qemu-system-i386 -drive format=raw,file=build/bin/snake.bin
2. Run the disk image: qemu-system-i386 -drive format=raw,file=build/img/snake.img
3. Run the ISO file: qemu-system-i386 -cdrom build/iso/snake.iso

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.