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

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
67•exploraz•2d ago

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dmaginas•2d ago
Great idea!
petee•2d ago
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
drfunk•2d ago
sounds a lot like a tweet from the parody account @PeterMolydeux !
Affric•1h ago
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
mephage•1h 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".

fragmede•1h ago
So that's why the Matrix needed humans to power their systems!
mrkstu•1h ago
Master Control Program
monkpit•1h ago
Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

advisedwang•1h ago
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
loloquwowndueo•54m 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.
jonahx•22m ago
Many programmers program for fun outside of work.
fragmede•1h 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.
SomeHacker44•1h ago
Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
edoceo•27m ago
Get Tron to Sark so he can communicate!
aranelsurion•27m ago
got rebooted at 332k @ normal. maybe being an OS wasn't my calling :)

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

https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os
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