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I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector

by Akshat Joshi akshatjoshi.com published 2025-11-142 min read

written by - Akshat Joshi Sometime back, I set myself a crazy constraint: Load only one thing at boot - A Pong game that fits in one floppy disk sector — 512 bytes. Why would I build this? I have played with Operating Systems and their workings by customizing them and tweaking their

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