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Ah… I think I vaguely remember a similar older program that would (optionally, of course!) as a funny option delete the files when you “defeated” them.
You might be thinking of this Doom mod that create monsters for each system process and would kill an actual process every time you killed one: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
Ah… I think I vaguely remember a similar older program that would (optionally, of course!) as a funny option delete the files when you “defeated” them.
Or Operation: Inner Space. It used the file system to generate sectors to visit to clear viruses from your EXEs, and collecting non-contaminated EXEs to use as currency. It works great with Windows' backwards compatibility, but modern filesystems have so many thousands of directories the game is now impossible to complete. http://www.sdispace.com/
Strange they used shortcuts on Windows, as Windows has had links since Vista: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2016/12/02/symlin... Either this is because it's not at all well known, or because they think some users will be on XP. (Which would be strange)
I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
I tried to convey some of that magic, or at least logically reason why those 8-bits were awesome, in a blog post once - https://retrofun.pl/2021/05/18/hobbyarding/ :)
It still feels like this sometimes. Finding poorly documented system calls, changing screen properties in ways beyond BASIC, getting into how CP/M works internally... (more comprehensible than today's 1000x larger systems)... Or even doing Advent of Code in BASIC is cool!
I remember when I was 6 and my dad brought home an Osbourne for me to play with. Just using CPM felt like dungeon diving to this weird world where you might find a loot in the form of a game or something.
The biggest hurdle for me was figuring out "how do I open a file?" I could cd around and ls, but what if I wanted to open a .doc in openoffice? There was no "double-click" for the command line.
There was a game "Virus: The Game" (1997) on PC which takes place in your file system.
I remember having it on some demo disk as a kid
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Well, that seems like the ideal candidate for a RAM drive, doesn't it?
Ramdisks are extremely slept on, there is a lot of stuff you can kludge with a ramdisk in a pinch. I had to do some video stream processing the other day and I didn't have time. So I just made a ramdisk and read/wrote jpegs at 30fps, yeah it's stupid as hell, but it worked when I needed it to and that's what matters.
This has many uses, as you said. E.g. sometimes even just downloading a video stream to disc creates a temporary file in the destination folder for every fragment. I just d/l those into /var/tmp first and then mv the finished video to where it's supposed to live. I'm sure both my SSD and HDD are grateful! =)
Creating these folder crawling games was great, until you get to the end, and the folder paths become too large and files and folders start disappearing.. and you learn about windows folder limits. Ah, fun times.. Btw, that was 20 years ago.