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> In the end, the current version of the game create 41,514 directories, 15,2041 files (mostly empty files with messages in their names), and 45,399 links, which makes it rather unplayable for those unfortunate enough to try running it on a mechanical hard drive. https://github.com/wheybags/DungeonsAndDirectories/blob/mast... Be warned if you're not using an SSD!
Well, that seems like the ideal candidate for a RAM drive, doesn't it?
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.
yes yes yes! 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…
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yes yes yes! 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…
I tried conveying the same to my teen children. It went over like a lead zeppelin.
on the other hand, nobody would read a manual these days anymore...
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yes yes yes! 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…
I tried conveying the same to my teen children. It went over like a lead zeppelin.
Many years ago I wrote a tamagochi like virtual pet called "Virus" which lived as "name.virus" file in a folder and you could feed it text files with a ".food" extension. Based on its DNA (random strings inside the".virus"file) it liked certain words more or less and had to eat quite a few files when it was Hungry It also left ".poop" files in the folder you had to clean up in order for it to stay healthy. Also added…
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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.
I once did something based on the same principle, for a (very-very light) security solution, atop a simple closed-source media appliance that could play from USB Storage. I made a script on Linux to create a huge directory tree representing every possible sequence of a password of length N. Only one password path through the tree got the viewer to the directory that had the non-kid-safe media files. The non-security…
Never tried this again. And I don't remember availability of USB drives back then.
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.
When I got my first PC (a Linux Eee PC netbook), I remember opening an xterm and typing each letter of the alphabet, one at a time and hitting TAB-TAB to see all the commands that start with that letter. Not an efficient way to learn how to use bash, but it was exciting. 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? Ther…
Minor nitpick: Why are people still insisting on calling macOS "OSX"? It hasn't been "Mac OS X" for quite some time now.
I didn't notice the shift to macOS and iOS until it was well underway, and I was part of the target demo.
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Maybe it was easier? Iirc at least in some recent ish Windows versions, by default you needed admin privileges to run mklink. Given that a shortcut is just a regular file, that solves a lot of problems.
That depends on your version of windows (newer versions are more relaxed on it). Also file links are 'weird' in windows. You have 3 types junction points, file links and directory links. Each one acting in its very weird odd way. Junction points are for local only directories. Files for files and directories can be either local dirs or remote SMB points. Junctions vs dir can be an interesting trade off on what you wa…
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...