Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021) • Hacker News Board

Re: Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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Post by maxlin » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 6:14 PM UTC

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

Re: Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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Post by djmips » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

boricj wrote: post #7

The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

In praise of a good editor.

Re: Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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Post by 0x20cowboy » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC

butz wrote: post #12

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.

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.

Re: Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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Post by rightbyte » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC

0x20cowboy wrote: post #23

butz wrote: post #12

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.

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.

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.

Re: Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)

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Post by kristianp » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

andai wrote: post #8

Epic. That's super cool. That dog thing is very cute though, I felt bad. js13k is super cool. Here is my favorite game from there: https://js13kgames.com/2022/games/infernal-throne There was also some kind of java4k thing back in the day. Notch did a bunch of those: https://web.archive.org/web/20100218133531/http://www.mojang...

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.