Slow Computing Speedrunning

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Welcome to the Slow Computing any% Speedrunning Contest; also known as watching digital paint dry.

The goal of this contest is simple. To celebrate the long code [1] times, we're running an informal contest to celebrate this era of batch processing.

Objective and Rules

It's pretty simple:

  • Using any vintage computer of your choice, perform a longrunning task of some sort
  • Livestream, or otherwise provide regular status updates that show how far you have gotten.
  • Emulators and the like are A-OK; just let us know what its doing.

After each run, success or failure, our judges (which is mostly just the regulars in #paint-drying on Discord) will deem what, if any titles such run has earned, and an entirely subjective place on the Wall of Pain. There are absolutely no prizes besides the knowledge that you might be immortalized here for the life of the wiki.

Do you dare step up.

Examples of projects

For example, upgrading through every version of OS/2, building GCC, or the like. Livestream or otherwise regularly update the panting drying competition community. For NCommander's ur entries, VoDs on YouTube were provided. Europa livestreamed the terminal on Discord throughout the duration. Any sorta long running log with regular updates is acceptable.

The Wall of Pain

Idle Pain

Idle pain refers to tasks where they're started

GCC 8 on an Ultra 5 running OpenBSD/sparc64 (Europa)

  • Status:: Ongoing
  • Duration: 3+ days (ongoing)
  • Proof: Livestreamed on Discord
  • Comments: The build that started it all, Europa's attempt to install CDE which required upgrading GCC, and starting a multiday build process that lead to the creation of the paint drying community ... I'm still wondering how we got here - NCommander (talk) 14:54, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


Active Pain

=== Upgrading Through Every Version of OS/2 (NCommander)

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