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

petee 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up

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monkpit an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

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SomeHacker44 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?

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advisedwang an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.

	▲	loloquwowndueo 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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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mephage an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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".

	▲	fragmede 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
	▲	mrkstu 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Master Control Program

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fragmede 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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Affric 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Played this originally, glad to see scripting included

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drfunk 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !

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dmaginas 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Great idea!