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1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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post #13

- Write a video game emulator (any old console or computer platform) - Create a programming language - Restore an old broken down pinball machine - Build a mame arcade cabinet - Write some Interactive Fiction - Learn to make awesome programmatic artwork with something like Processing or Nodebox - Create a roguelike

It's like your read from my personal list.

Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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post #13

- Write a video game emulator (any old console or computer platform) - Create a programming language - Restore an old broken down pinball machine - Build a mame arcade cabinet - Write some Interactive Fiction - Learn to make awesome programmatic artwork with something like Processing or Nodebox - Create a roguelike

- Create an editor.

- Create an os in the language you designed above.

Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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Some things I'm glad to have done:

1. Write a Hello World application from scratch. No C library, compiler, linker, nothing. You get a hex editor.

2. Write a non-bootstrapped compiler or interpreter using assembler.

3. Write a program that learns to play a game.

4. Develop a network protocol.

5. Write a web server. You can use the language of your choice, but nothing is allowed except a socket library.

6. Write a platform game that performs at least as well as the original Super Mario Brothers.

7. Design a circuit that has some sort of non-trivial purpose and build it.

8. Write Tetris in Javascript.

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