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[-] noughtnaut@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] noughtnaut@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year 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~~

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 2 points 1 year ago
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