In the years since 1997, the landmark release of the Nokia 6110 and its inclusion of Snake have seen Snake ported to (or shamelessly ripped off for) countless devices. For about the past year, there's been an effort to bring it to DOS while continually decreasing its file size—and at long last, we've finally reached 56 bytes courtesy of donno2048's Snake for DOS port [h/t Hacker News].
Now, some immediate caveats are worth noting with this particular port of Snake. First, it runs too fast on the original hardware without a few configuration tweaks pointed out in the Hacker News thread that technically balloon the size past 56 bytes. It works perfectly fine in DOSBox and the web app, at least in terms of game speed.
