In a hacker version of Jumanji, when [fiberbundle]’s parents - TopicsExpress



          

In a hacker version of Jumanji, when [fiberbundle]’s parents divorced, and his thrice-fugitive new stepfather took him to a remote location in Australia without any access to technology or the outside world. With him he brought an old 486, a gift from his real dad. Lest the police discover them, [fiberbundle] was forbidden contact from most of society and even restricted in the books he was allowed to read. The boy spent years trying to get the most he could out of his two-generations-old PC. Using only two textbooks from a decade and a half earlier, DOS 6.0, and QBasic he managed to write his own shell dubbed OSCI (pronounced “Aussie”), a ray-caster 3d engine and lots more. No mentors, no Internet. The computers at school were even more outdated Power Macs. Eventually life returned him to civilization to be mindblown by modern technology 1000x as powerful. He went from playing text-based adventures had to write for himself, to seeing Crisis. From QBasic to C++. From ASCII art “shooters” to Half-Life 2. From a 486 to a 4-core CPU. From a rural library to Wikipedia. Follow the link above to see screens of his projects over the years. As yet no one has verified the story, but, even if only that, it is worth a read. Thanks [Gustavo] for the tip. Filed under: classic hacks December 15, 2014 at 11:00PM
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:17:48 +0000

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