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A game where you are an operating system (plbrault.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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