QEMU Advent Calendar

[hans-peter]

QEMU Advent Calendar

An amazing QEMU disk image every day!

What is QEMU?
QEMU is a free and open-source emulator and virtualizer that can perform hardware virtualization. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU)

Link: https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2020/


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Day 1 - Tweetable bootsector game - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y01.tar.gz
- This bootloader game can be generated from text that fits in a tweet

Day 2 - QEMU 5.2.0-rc4 - https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.2.0-rc4.tar.xz
- No disk image today, but a new release candidate for QEMU: Version 5.2.0-rc4 has just been published yesterday

Day 3 - GW-BASIC - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...sic.tar.xz
- GW-BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language and it came with MS-DOS. It was open-sourced on May 21st 2020 under the MIT License.

Day 4 - bootRogue - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y04.tar.gz
- bootRogue, a roguelike game that fits in a boot sector

Day 5 - lights - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y05.tar.gz
- lights, a memory game that fits in a boot sector

Day 6 - BootMine - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y06.tar.gz
- BootMine, Bootable minesweeper game

Day 7 - Visopsys - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y07.tar.gz
- Visopsys is a hobby graphical, network-capable alternative operating system released under the GPL

Day 8 - Fountain.bin - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y08.tar.gz
- Fountain.bin is a demo created as an entry into an irc floppy assembly demo contest

Day 9 - Raytracer - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y09.tar.xz
- Incredible ray-tracing demo in a QEMU "data disk" in a boot loader


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Edit 09.12.2020: new day added

[hans-peter]

The advent calendar door is still closed and I may not have the time to update the thread today. 
Either someone takes over for today or i will add the day the next time.

[hans-peter]

Day 10 - QEMU 5.2.0 - https://download.qemu.org/qemu-5.2.0.tar.xz
- No disk image today, but a link to the new release for QEMU: Version 5.2.0 is now official!

Day 11 - Flickernoise - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...lky.tar.gz
- Say good bye to LM32 (a target that has been marked as deprecated) by running the Flickernoise GUI a last time before the LM32 code gets removed

Day 12 - Game Of Life - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y12.tar.gz
- A tribute to John Conway, written in rust and bootable on baremetal

Day 13 - Invaders - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y13.tar.xz
- Another bootloader game, fend off Invaders, moving left and right with ctrl and alt, firing with shift. Let us know if you manage to stop them all!

Day 14 - EggOS - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y14.tar.xz
- EggOS is a demonstration of using Go as the basis for a unikernel. It is definitely still in experimental mode, but demonstrates some interesting ideas

Day 15 - MicroSnow - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y15.tar.gz
- MicroSnow is a build of Slim Bootloader, replacing the micropython based config software with a snowstorm over serial

Day 16 - OpenWrt Privoxy - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y16.tar.gz
- OpenWrt Privoxy is a custom installation of openwrt built to serve as a privacy-preserving http proxy

Day 17 - Stupid Creek - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y17.tar.gz
- Row on PowerPC Try to get your presents home in the game "Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas." running in QEMU's “mpc8544ds” PowerPC machine emulation.


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Edit 17.12.2020: new day added

[hans-peter]

there were some problems with the doors for the last few days (door 18 unable to open until two days later, ...)
looks like the problems are fixed, so here the new days:


Day 18 - CubicDoom - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y18.tar.gz
- CubicDoom is another nanochess bootloader game. This time, it uses ray-casting to give a 3D experience in just over 500 bytes

Day 19 - AFLAtoxin - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y19.tar.gz
- Let's hope that Santa did not get lost in this 512 byte boot sector snow storm...

Day 20 - kpara8 - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y20.tar.gz
- How to reboot the Matrix? Find out with this little 512 byte boot sector demo

Day 21 - u-root - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y21.tar.gz
Check out this christmas tree with just enough root!

Day 22 - Ventoy - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y22.tar.xz
- Ventoy boots isos from a flash drive, supporting a wide variety of targets.

Day 23 - ELKS - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...y23.tar.gz
- ELKS supports venerable 8088 processors with a linux-like operating system, network and all!


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Edit 23.12.2020: new day added

[hans-peter]

and the final one:


Day 24 - And a Hippo New Year - https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/202...ppo.tar.gz
- And a Hippo New Year lets you enjoy a game as a little house hippo, in an interactive fiction running on PPC.


I hope some of you had fun with the downloads and a merry christmas for everyone


Ho-Ho-Ho