A game where you are an operating system
A game where you are an operating system
![[HN] I created the nerdiest game ever](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/42f4d580-e1be-42ce-aee9-bac9da65518a.png?format=webp&thumbnail=196)
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I thought this would be more like MARS, but turns out to be bare-metal
MARSCore 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.-
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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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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