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by jonesetc 2440 days ago
Learning an actual machine language is definitely harder, all of these games use extremely limited instruction sets and/or simplified operating conditions.

As for more beneficial, I'm sure learning a real practical machine language is more beneficial. However you can definitely draw some of the same lessons out of these games and depending on you, might have a lot more fun and chances of actually going through with playing these games.
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lloeki 2440 days ago
Harder indeed (in some ways) but the raw satisfaction of booting your first toy OS on bare metal is unmatched.

I enjoyed writing a DCPU-16 emulator very much though.

https://github.com/lloeki/python-dcpu_16

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jdmichal 2440 days ago
You just reminded me that I wrote a stack language for DCPU16 back in the frenzy. It gave me an excuse to learn the IronMeta parser generator, which is an implementation of OMeta. Unfortunately I kept it on Codeplex and never bothered to move it since the entire idea was dead by that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta

https://github.com/kulibali/ironmeta

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=stackr

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