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Show HN: Chronos, 2 terminal games through 50 years of hacking history
- xav77 2mo ago[flagged]
- xav77 2mo ago2 free browser games, nothing to sell, looking for feedback. Chronos 1 is a terminal escape room, through the history of computer, from Unix V6 to modern Linux and known exploits. Chronos 2 is a chase across real cyberwarfare, the 2016 Bangladesh bank heist, Moonlignt Maze, the Ukraine grid attack, Stuxnet and plenty more. I spent about 2 months writing Chronos 2, looking for feedback, especially dialing the difficulty and the hint level.
- kappuchino 2mo agofeedback: making the editor "ed" pia is a deliberate choice - and a dealbreaker for me. Tickle my brain, don't make me figure out arcane edit schemas. vi, emacs, etc. just make this doable.
- xav77 2mo agoNo vi or emacs in 1977 unix, ed was the editor and you don't raelly need to know it: man ed give you the syntax and ed lockd.c spells out the solution for you. You don't need any sort of knowledge beside whats in the game just poke at stuff, did you see the line in ed lockd.c, if not it's not landing, it's worth knowing. But feedback is feedback so I'll take it
- intervolz 2mo agohad a wonderful time poking around, will definitely give this another shot when i have an hour to lock in. 01:58 lifted the blue-box tones — 1977 14:41 energized relay 3 — 1977 14:41 cut the LOCKD backdoor key — 1977 29:55 earned an elite BBS handle — 1983 55:19 recovered the DES key half — 1988 58:47 recovered the worm signature — 1988 60:28 the purge fired — the lock welded shut
- xav77 2mo agoFantastic