Notch Expands On 0x10c, Microsoft and Quantum Computing 94
eldavojohn writes "Mojang's Marcus Persson (better known as 'Notch') has answered quite a few questions in an interview with PC Gamer about his new game 0x10c. Since its announcement, there's been very few details about game play aside from the DCPU-16 and art tests. But in this interview, Notch has revealed quite a bit about how the game will function and non-final ideas he has for either a monthly fee to play in a 'multiverse' or micropayments. He talks about a custom OS people are working on to load into the game's CPU as well as a an in-game 3D printer that will allow you to make virtual objects. When asked about Kickstarter and his Oculus dev kit, Notch said 'Definitely going to make it work in 0x10c no matter what' and his account of using the Oculus Rift sounds more than promising for the VR Device. When asked about Linux he said, '[Linux] is wonderful. I think we need to have it, and it's a shame that more people, including myself, don't use it. It's gotten easier and friendlier.' When asked about Microsoft he said, 'I use their OS – Windows 7 is an amazing operating system in my opinion and of course there's the Xbox, which I love. I'm sure Bing is going to take off and save them. [Editor's note: Notch is smiling mischievously as he says this.]'"
A Short Explanation (Score:5, Informative)
Mojang is working on two games: Scrolls and 0x10c. You may remember Scrolls from when Bethesda sued them for the name. This story happens to be about the sparse details on 0x10c. Inside this game there will be a central processing unit emulated called the DCPU-16. You can find more information about that in the link to it but the game will center heavily around the user accomplishing tasks with that.
I am the submitter of this story and didn't think it was necessary to clutter the summary with the above information.
Yes - I know I could google these but seriously WTF - TFA reads like some circle jerk post in 4 chan that you need years of inside knowledge just to understand.
I don't think you read either the summary or the fucking article. The very first thing I wrote in the summary establishes who Notch is. The article talks about all the above -- no reason to Google, just click on the links I embedded in the summary.
Re:Bing will save us all! (Score:4, Informative)
google [google.com]
Bing [binged.it]
That said I only use them for their maps, and only if I need the aerial photo.
Re:Bing will save us all! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mojang? (Score:3, Informative)
IHBT, IHL, DIAF, HAND (Score:4, Informative)
CPU appears to be little-endian ("it's strongly suggested all multi-word operations use little endian in all DCPU-16 programs").
Sleep chamber peripheral appears to be big-endian ("Reads the B register, and reads a 64 bit number from memory address B in big endian, and sets the number of units to skip to that number.")
When reading a 64 bit value - indicating the number of units of time to travel forward through - there is mixed endianness.
What could possibly go wrong?
[an embedded programmer guy]
THAT'S THE JOKE [0x10cwiki.com] /McBain
Backstory
In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals. In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.