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        • lopis · 7 days ago

          I definitely recommend checking out all top games from this competition over the years. Quite a few gems.

            • fiatpandas · 6 days ago

              Love the ingenuity of the texture DSL. So much variety can be packed into a small footprint.

              • djmips · 6 days ago

                In praise of a good editor.

                • kristianp · 5 days ago

                  Interesting insight into Notch's creativity before Minecraft was released, although a public alpha was released beforehand in 2009.

                  Kind of a shame that Java applet support was removed from browsers. Obviously the security problems made it too much work to maintain.

                • ck2 · 6 days ago

                  the Wolfenstein3D-like game in only a few hundred bytes WITH SOUND might be even more impressive even though it's like exploits all the way down

                  oddly can't find a link to it at the moment

                    • ck2 · 6 days ago

                      well there have been micro attempts over the years

                      like this is 512 bytes (half a K)

                      https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83795

                      but the one I am thinking about had textured walls and sound

                      it used some insane levels of packing and exploits to render

                  • butz · 6 days ago

                    Imagine, if someone would start making operating system and its applications that are just kilobytes in size. RAM price crysis would resolve in a day.

                    • 0x20cowboy · 6 days ago

                      Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/ it’s just most people dont use them.

                      I agree with you though. If Apple open sourced os9, and the community could get it to run on modern hardware, I would run it.

                      • rightbyte · 5 days ago

                        Interesting project. A floppy sized OS seems about right, excluding some sort of driver tree.

                        OS preferences seem to boil down to "have someone else made this app work on the system" which makes it very much a network effect issue.

                        And if you use such an OS to boot a bloated Firefox, then there is hardly any point.

                    • tribal808 · 6 days ago

                      very cool, try it with other games

                      • heresalexandria · 6 days ago

                        This is really remarkable, and frankly more playable than a number of niche ports like this that I've tried - great work!

                        • slavcik · 6 days ago

                          Very epic stuff

                          • syspec · 6 days ago

                            I read the whole writeup assuming it was LLM assisted, then when I got to the bottom I realized it's from 2021 and was blown away.

                            • grg0 · 6 days ago

                              Blown away as in he had LLMs before anybody else did?

                              • 3eb7988a1663 · 6 days ago

                                Does this make you question the accuracy of your personal LLM detector?

                              • dmonterocrespo · 6 days ago

                                Great job!

                                • maxlin · 6 days ago

                                  Very nice! Lack of pathfinding hardly made itself visible, in intense combat I at first assumed they did have some kind of pathfinding