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  • Reminds me of psDooM

    https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

    by monkpit
  • Does this game make me MCP? Can I battle Jeff Bridges with discs?
    by SomeHacker44
  • I love this idea! I totally see it in the classroom or being played by someone who's trying to learn how to make an OS (which is on my personal bucket list)

    What I didn't like, is the tutorial is separate from the game. It would be awesome imo, if there's a tutorial stage where the game is explained hands-on (maybe pausing the game with explainers, until I start to get how to play) Otherwise I have to memorise the instructions before trying the game.

    Regardless, amazing little game.

    by phaser
  • Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
    by advisedwang
  • Fun fact: operating systems were originally programs intended to replace most of the work of a human job description, that of computer operator.
    by monocasa
  • This was fun to play...for about 2 minutes before all the manual work of moving processes around got very tedious, which may be the point of the game. What I would like is a little code edit window where i could code simple routines to handle the scheduling, then be able to watch the result.
    by donpdonp
  • Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
    by petee
  • This would be huge if it was « rogue like », where you could buy new more performant components that allow you to reach further into the game. The game makes you naturally lose, and there are milestones that you can reach (bosses, or loot that stays throughout sessions). For instance you could unlock GPUs, docker containers, another SSD, antiviruses…
    by GL26

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