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TempleOS: FlightSim and FirstPersonShooter [video]
- serf 11y agogood work Terry (if you're reading). I wish I could wrangle low-level stuff as well as you.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoseriously, amazing coding. I have real respect for your skills, even if I don't believe in god and can be kind of a dick in comments. super dope C skills bro.
- shultays 11y agoYou mean HolyC.
- mahouse 11y agoHe looks like he's doing very well. I'm happy for him.
- rectangletangle 11y agoDamn, that's really impressive. Especially considering that he wrote it at every layer of abstraction. It's been interesting watching this undertaking progress.
- yoha 11y agoAlthough it looks clunky, the visualization and edition of the included sprites and 3D models right in the code editor is impressive. It does not even look like Vim as a plugin for this!
- radicalbyte 11y agoI noticed that too. Very handy. I get very nostalgic reading about your work Terry, I haven't done anything low-level since I started playing with the C64. Skip to 11:30, it's amazing; the editor includes binary data - in this case 3d models - which are rendered within the editor in real time.
- walkingolof 11y agoI think more and more hobbiest will go back to some form of low level programming, just because its fun and different. I think there will be purpose made computers for this, computers that provides a very low level of abstraction to start with, something like a amiga or atari st.
- pronoiac 11y agoMaybe I'm seeing a connection where there isn't one, but there's a conversation in a nearby thread about extending shells: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673975
- frik 11y agoIs Terry/TempleOS in the current batch of YC? He tried to apply some months ago. If not, maybe someone can give his work a chance, like they did with some non-profit orgs?
- radicalbyte 11y agoAlthough it's a nice idea - as engineers it's clear to us that Terry is highly capable - he isn't a good match for YC. Sure, they could do something, but it would only be to humor him. I don't think that we should be encouraging that. When his stuff is posted here he's getting real respect from his peers. His illness it totally irrelevant. It would be sad and IMHO wrong to turn him into some sort of VC "circus freak" attraction. On the other hand doing something truly altruistic to help him would be of course would be very nice.
- frik 11y agoMakes sense. (That was his entry a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9246855 )
- copx 11y agoIs that a joke? He has severe schizophrenia. He could not even work a job at McDonald's. This is why he lives off disability benefits and has so much time to develop TempleOS and the associated programs.
- joshontheweb 11y agoThis guy is fascinating. Apparently he is building an operating system based on directives he received from God. Also there is a program called After Egypt which is a game he made based on the story of Moses. In this game you can go speak with God and Terry regards this program as an oracle of sorts. He speaks freely about God's thoughts and reactions to his efforts in his videos. Edit: grammar
- sudioStudio64 11y agoEDIT: I started to write something snarky about this guy...I can't. He obviously has a mental illness. He is without a doubt one of the most hardcore C programmers I have ever seen. I will say that the oracle part of his OS is a random text generator that he interprets as coded messages from god. At least that is what I read in an interview.
- joshontheweb 11y agoYeah, it either spits out random text or random bible passages.
- thechao 11y agoIt's not C. It's a C-like language that he designed (and implemented) by himself. The embedded (rendered) resource references are my favorite part.
- sudioStudio64 11y agoYeah, that's super cool.
- fit2rule 11y agoCan you explain what an embedded (rendered) resource reference is, or maybe point to some code in TempleOS that demonstrates it?
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- Exuma 11y agoHe's also wildly racist: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/38u4zc/flight_simulator_and_first_person_shooter_in/cry64v6 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/38u4zc/flight_s...
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- FlannelPancake 11y agoIt's a weird conundrum. He's obviously extremely mentally ill. On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want. If he started stabbing people we'd (hopefully) put him in a place where he couldn't do that anymore, e.g. some sort of inpatient program. On the other hand, it's a little hard to take anything he writes/says with any sort of gravity given the obvious schizophrenia. It's a little like if a very small (like, just learned to speak) child dropped an N bomb. I don't think most of us would attribute any malice to it, more just see it as a reflection of mental immaturity. Unfortunately, whereas you can correct a child, you can't really correct a schizophrenic. So I guess the solution is just to draw attention to it but take it with a grain of salt? I dunno.
- DanBC 11y ago> you can't really correct a schizophrenic. I know many people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizophrenia style illnesses. They're all kind of embarressed about the shenanigans they get up to when they're ill. I don't know anyone who wants to get a free pass on bad behaviour just because they have a severe and enduring mental illness. Empathy and understanding and a bit of tolerance, yes.
- derefr 11y agoA free pass, no. But I don't think that's what was meant. It's that, for someone suffering an accute "attack" of paranoid delusion et al, you can't really bring them back to earth just by telling them they're wrong. You can tell them they're wrong after the fact... but they already know that. So it's kind of pointless, in a consequentialist sense, to correct them.
- derefr 11y agoSeeing Terry's work always makes me wonder whether delusional mania was the drive behind the creation of other "big works" in religious history that are hard to comprehend in sheer scope/detail, like the Sistene Chapel. It also reminds me of the story of Bolero's dementia, a bit: http://www.radiolab.org/story/217340-unraveling-bolero/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/217340-unraveling-bolero/
- bshimmin 11y agoThis is a really interesting (and not a little disquieting) thought. In the case of the Sistene Chapel ceiling - the scale and artistry of which really is difficult to comprehend if you haven't seen it firsthand (truly, pictures do not in any way do it justice) - it was, at least, a commissioned piece of work, which I believe Michelangelo was initially reluctant to accept.
- orionblastar 11y agoHe rejected it because he was a sculptor and not a painter. Eventually he gave in and had to teach himself how to paint. A lot of artists were mentally ill, and took up painting as a form of therapy. In the USA they used to put the stupid with the smart in special schools and asylums for people with a mental illness. Once they changed that there are more disabled people now in society with a mental illness. http://petroleusesletter.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/why-are-there-so-many-more-disabled-people-now/ http://petroleusesletter.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/why-are-th...
- jacobparker 11y agoDamn, that was cool. Really liked the in-source 3d models and map.
- joshmn 11y agoTerry, you are fascinating. You have a number of haters, but you also have a huge number of supporters that don't label you by your illness. Keep up the work. You're an inspiration to all of us.
- jason_slack 11y agoI have followed Terry for a few years. I think he is really gifted. I always wish the best for him. Terry if you are reading. I admire and respect your work. Your skills keep me making sure I improve mine. Thank You.
- bitwize 11y agoI've called TempleOS the "I Whipped Spider-Man's Ass" of operating systems in the past. The comparisons to Wesley Willis are tempting: a schizophrenic man plying a craft (code, music) as a release for the suffering his condition inflicts upon him, and who enjoys a certain amount of good will because of his unbridled creativity. Though he also merits comparison to Ulillillia, the severely autistic kid with an overactive imagination and penchant for 2D coding and number puzzles who appeared in the early 2000s.