<story><title>Notch&apos;s next game is an MMO</title><url>http://0x10c.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endianswap</author><text>Technology of note: &quot;The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.
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The cost of the game is still undecided, but it&apos;s likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren&apos;t logged in.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>redthrowaway</author><text>This could quite possibly be the nerdiest game ever made.  The amazing level of boffin creativity we&apos;ve seen in Minecraft could easily be eclipsed by giving everyone their own in-game programmable computers to tinker with.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t wait.</text></comment>
<story><title>Notch&apos;s next game is an MMO</title><url>http://0x10c.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endianswap</author><text>Technology of note: &quot;The computer in the game is a fully functioning emulated 16 bit CPU that can be used to control your entire ship, or just to play games on while waiting for a large mining operation to finish.
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The cost of the game is still undecided, but it&apos;s likely there will be a monthly fee for joining the Multiverse as we are going to emulate all computers and physics even when players aren&apos;t logged in.&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zackham</author><text>Backstory is cool too and coincidentally appropriate for  parent&apos;s username: &quot;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.&quot;</text></comment>