I Created the Nerdiest Game Ever
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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be an OS?
  • noughtnaut
    16•9 months ago

    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.

    • LazerFX
      2•9 months ago

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

      • noughtnaut
        4•9 months ago

        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.

        • LazerFX
          1•9 months ago

          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

  • Adramis [he/him]English
    4•9 months ago

    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