A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

10 comments

• petee 2 days ago
  Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
• monkpit 1 hour ago
  Reminds me of psDooM

  https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
• SomeHacker44 47 minutes ago
  Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
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  • edoceo 14 minutes ago
    Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
• aranelsurion 14 minutes ago
  got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)
• advisedwang 1 hour ago
  Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
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  • loloquwowndueo 41 minutes ago
    A lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
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    • jonahx 9 minutes ago
      Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
• mephage 1 hour ago
  Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.

  Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".

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  • fragmede 51 minutes ago
    So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
  • mrkstu 48 minutes ago
    Master Control Program
• fragmede 49 minutes ago
  This didn't get a lot of traction the other time I saw it, but one easily imagines this as part of a a game to teach operating systems, starting from no MMU all the way to how we manage distributed supercomputers like a DGX GB300, or Google's borg.
• Affric 1 hour ago
  Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
• drfunk 2 days ago
  sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
• dmaginas 2 days ago
  Great idea!