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Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?

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Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?

MattKC fits a playable Snake game into a QR code by writing tiny x86 machine code and patching the ZBar scanner so it can run the decoded data.

HN admires it as a creative hack and cites it as the inspiration for later tiny-game and QR-code projects.

7 Hacker News mentions · 2020–2025

Topics

  • Demoscene & retrocomputing
  • Software performance & optimization
  • Security & hacking

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