Minecraft Creator's New Game Called 0x10c 206
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silentbrad writes "As announced last month, Notch — creator of Minecraft — is working on a sandbox space game (no, not the Mars Effect April Fools joke, though it's similar). "The game [0x10c] is still extremely early in development, but like we did with Minecraft, we expect to release it early and let the players help me shape the game as it grows. The cost of the game is still undecided, but it's likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren't logged in. Single player won't have any recurring fees. ... The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish. Full specifications of the CPU will be released shortly, so the more programatically advanced of you can get a head start.""
16 bit processing while i'm off line? (Score:5, Funny)
Bit-coin fortune, here I come.
Re:Not Java. Please not Java. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure notch is able to write terrible code in every language.
Re:Not Java. Please not Java. (Score:5, Funny)
And the 16-bit CPU is programmed with...assembly? Jesus Christ, please tell me that's not the only way he plans on letting people utilize it...
If you don't like it, nut-up and write a C compiler!
Re:Actually, 0x10^C (Score:5, Funny)
The concept is that in 1988 the cryo units for travel were accidentally set for 281,474,976,710,656 years due to an endian mistake.
What I find amazing is not that such a simple mistake could be made, but that the cryo machines and the 16-bit computers running them were able to run for over 10^15 years!
Fucking nice job on the hardware, guys! But next time don't leave the drivers for the interns to write...