# 0xAX/BootLife

> Conway's Game of Life written in assembly and fitting into a 512-byte x86 boot sector; the simulation grid is VGA video memory. It runs directly from BIOS without an operating system.

- Magnitude: 1.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 56 total · +0 stars today, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: Assembly · License: ISC · Created: 2026-09-20 · Last push: 2026-09-21
- GitHub: https://github.com/0xAX/BootLife · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/0xAX/BootLife

## Useful for

- Build the image with nasm and run it in QEMU as a floppy disk
- Study an example of VGA memory and boot sector programming in assembly

## Why it’s here

- 0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
- The repository is 5 days old and already has 56 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector” — 27 points, 3 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 5
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 10 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 6 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-25: 19, 23, 5, 7, 2, 0

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

09-23 2.0, 09-24 2.1, 09-25 1.2

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in boot sector — 27 points, 4 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791296

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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