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learnbyexample@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago

A game where you are an operating system

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A game where you are an operating system

plbrault.com

learnbyexample@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 years ago
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I Created the Nerdiest Game Ever
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    I thought this would be more like MARS, but turns out to be bare-metal MARS Core War where I’m the scheduler. I’m not saying it a terrible experience, but I am grateful that my day job in IT is more higher-level.

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      What’s MARS? I couldn’t find any reference that seemed to match due to… well, the ambiguitiy of the name :D

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        Oups, I misremembered: the game is called Core War. In it, MARS (“Memory Array Redcode Simulator”) is the name of a virtual machine that executes Redcode instructions. As a player, you write small programs (“warriors”) to be loaded on the virtual machine where they try to prevail while klling off (overwriting) opponent programs.

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          Thanks for that - much appreciated. Sorry I failed to respond earlier, I’m still getting used to the fediverse, and seem to have managed to get multiple accounts so… yeah

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          I thought this as well.

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    This is lovely! An upgrades system would be really neat - like buying more cores, or bigger memory, or shooting users in the head when they don’t log out after completing five tasks

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    This is so cute! Reminds me of the NAND game.

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    I need to try it ASAP!

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      https://drfreckles42.itch.io/youre-the-os

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