Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets

Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by samfisher83 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:51AM (#14702359)

People have done some absolutely crazy things with Excel as well. To some people its like an OS.

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by sogen on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @11:50AM (#14703396)

Wasn't there a flight simulator or a Doom a decade ago?

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by euyyn on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:22PM (#14703740)

Excel had a flight simulator as an easter egg, but it wasn't written in Excel formulas or VBA :)

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by khedoros1 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:10PM (#14703617)

Excel 97 had a sort of flight simulator. Excel 2000 had a car game. Earlier versions had other little easter eggs, but I think that Microsoft cracked down on them after Excel 2000.

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by mikestew on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:08PM (#14707224)

Turns out the federal government to which Microsoft sells wondered, “if they’re sneaking in flight simulators and dungeons, what else are they sneaking in?” That’s the version I was told, anyway.

That, and Easter eggs are another attack vector. How much of a security audit do you think those get?

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by wolfgke on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @05:44PM (#14706371)

Indeed - some people have implemented games in it: http://mashable.com/2014/08/27/microsoft-excel-games/

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Re:Making a virtual machine in Google Sheets by lenocinor on Thursday July 06, 2017 @12:04AM (#14708058)

My favorite is the Puerto Rico Evolver ( http://www.tropiceuro.com/puerto-rico-evolver/ ), which both allows you to play (vanilla) Puerto Rico (the board game), AND evolves to your playstyle as you play. Pretty amazing.

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