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- noughtnaut ( @noughtnaut@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
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.- LazerFX ( @LazerFX@kbin.social ) 2•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 ( @noughtnaut@kbin.social ) 4•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 ( @LazerFX@kbin.social ) 1•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 [he/him] ( @Adramis@beehaw.org ) English5•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 - gabriele97 ( @gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top ) 2•1 year ago
I need to try it ASAP!