Ditto with alcohol laws -18 there-. Selling a cyder to a 17 + 11 months guy would have a much smaller fine than a hard liquor to a 14yo.

The reverse it's true, too. 14yo are the minimum age to be legally punished. If you are 13 and barely stole some $20 Steam card -if any- you just got sentenced to spend your formative years in a juvenile center.

But, if you are 13yo gang member and you have a longass list of both petty and hard crimes and the last one has been a bloody crime with serious injuries or homicide... you can be sent as an exception to an adult prison because your mentality and mindset are not the ones from the early teens.

Especially if your body it's really developed for your age and you basically commanded mini-clans as the ones you can see in Ireland, Italy and the like. When you can smack down adults at age 13 and even ilegally drive a car, the Spanish constitution wont save you. Ultimately you must -and can- be trialed as an adult but also be able to finish the mandatory education years until you hit 16. Not easy, of course, but sending these kind of people to juvenile centers just generates more thugs than anything else.

If this is difficult for humans, imagine that for software with exact constraints.

Also if I want I can cross-compile a static build of Frotz for Linux/Misc and emulate it under a RISC interpreter for Linux syscalls written in... Perl, runable in every modern Perl port out there. Linux/RISC binary under Perl for NetBSD/Vax? Yes. Slow? Not much, it's a text game in the end.

But, as for the ZMachine, you can run text adventures in Android, Game Boy, Amiga, MSDOS, Windows, Palm PDA's... anything 8bit and up.

Also, damn Sokoban under Eforth written in Subleq, a VM which can just:

- set up a 2^16 RAM size

- single opcode: substract A from B, if less than 0, go to addr in C. - A < 0? Get ASCII input in B - B < 0? Put ASCII output in B - C < 0? End

This, just this, and people wrote Subleq simulators in C, AWK, Python, TCL, FPGA's and whatnot. And it will run Eforth, and that means... you can write a ZMachine interpreter on it and be really slow if emulated in a Pentium 4 (maybe 3/5 seconds per command with a ZMachine on top of Eforth for Muxleq instead of Subleq), but the game will be playable and a great exercise on Turing completeness.

If a Mandlebrot render under Muxleq+EForth (with no floats used, just integers) is as fast as a C64/Amiga with a native Forth. then having that tiny EForth+Muxleq is not that useless.

https://github.com/howerj/muxleq

Use Deutex, GNU make and Pillow for Python to compile.

Then wou will have up-to-date IWADS to be used aywhere. No need to put ID copyrights, just a mention to FreeDoom creators.

- POSIX bloat vs Plan9's simple C and even simpler API

- ioctl's vs everything it's a file

- Complex socket spawning vs open() and dial() under Plan9/Go

- ALSA vs tuned up OSSv4, or plaing audio/mixerfs under 9front

- find -which syntax is huge- vs walk -f (or -d for dirs) | grep

- RDP/VNC/SSH/NFS/SMB vs just rcpu+auth (9p) and run rio(4) and for files... 9fs which does a simple bind()

- Symlinks and hard links vs bind and namespaces.

- GDB and SSH vs importing a remote /proc in a rio window and remote-debugging your damn remote machine as if it were your own. How cool is that? Ditto with devices. Import sound cards, network cards with the whole IP stack. NAT you say? No more.

- FFSv2 (hello OpenBSD) vs current GeFS under 9front which is like a miracle over what OBSD it's trying, the bad ZFS license or BTRFS not being ready on GNU yet. Probably the Hurd people will port GeFS to Hurd/Mach first, before BTRFS gets even ready...

- Dynamic vs static linking. 9front, a suite of multiarch compilers. Set $objtype, compile, link, deploy a standalone binary. Ready, as if it were a Go binary under Unix, but without glibc oddities. ARM binaries from 386? Done. You need a crazy long i686-gnu-foo-bar and the rest of crazyness? Not anymore. These come in src form, compile and install them, no internet required. Literal two damn commands to do so, from any to any arch.

- SH/KSH/Bash. Complexity ridden shells. Here's rc. No aliases there, just functions. No complex escaping, just () for strings, ^ to concat, ' ' for quoting. Problem solved. Even the conditonal words' syntax it's like throwing down all the complexity giving you a weirdly simple shell.

- PCRE and ex commands under vi/nvi/vim (bloat) vs Sam and structural regexes. Sam it's like a graphical vi, period, there's nothing alien of it. Imagine a modeless vi with a small frame to input commands with an easier syntax:

     x/lookup/c/replace 

rio(1) windows under plan9/9front have their own namespace and OFC you can restrict these per windows making these kind of attacks futile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)

Don Hopkins himself can enlighten us about it (NeWS) better than me literally anyone in this thread, jut wait.

By comparison, from the first Core Duo computers to today... we should have been roaming around, at street, level, in fully 3D rendered cities in Street View long ago, at least with Half Life 2 quality graphics and some high res textures and light bolted on to fake out the most complex effects.

And yet what we have it's the exact same rendering PC's and PowerPC macs did with virtual tour multimedia CD's in late 90's (and Encarta) but in a higher resolution. Literally. A 2D image rendered inside of an sphere.

That's it, something right now you can do in software without too much effort. You can get some 3D image and a dedicated viewer for it such as Panini with no advanced 3D support at all and what you are literally doing it's the same as JS scripts and WebGL are trying to do with Street View still images but with a Core Duo CPU or a high end Pentium 4.

Which is a technology closer to Myst in concept than the Unreal Engine. There's no actual progress as the one we lived through the 90's. Years passed as huge steps in the same way a kid aged 10 had near nothing to do in tastes with a 14yo one. Well, technology in our lives was the same. From walkmans to CD's and for crappy MSDOS computers in Mid Elementary to Windows 98 at nearly the high scrool.

I feel we haven't really had a different paradigm for decades, and I'm not sure AI even really is one.