Can a single scratch project crash an entire computer?

Thunderguy77

Very possible. A few years ago, I ran one of my own Scratch projects on a school Chromebook and it destroyed the operating system. The only thing that showed up on screen after startup was “ChromeOS is missing”

Venatus_123

Thunderguy77 wrote:
Very possible. A few years ago, I ran one of my own Scratch projects on a school Chromebook and it destroyed the operating system. The only thing that showed up on screen after startup was “ChromeOS is missing”

cool, its better if you throw that thing to dustbin :D

dhuls

Thunderguy77 wrote:
Very possible. A few years ago, I ran one of my own Scratch projects on a school Chromebook and it destroyed the operating system. The only thing that showed up on screen after startup was “ChromeOS is missing”

That computer was probably already dead.

Also, I don't think Scratch, a very weak and high-level programming language, can delete an entire OS.

Last edited by dhuls (Sept. 2, 2021 02:40:23)

PenguinLover1123

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very fast

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create clone of (myself v)
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//A lot of these

PenguinLover1123

when green flag clicked
set [var v] to [t]
delete all of [crasher v]
add [crash my PC] to [crasher v]
crash1
when I start as a clone
crash1
when I start as a clone
crash2
define crash2
//fast
forever
set [var v] to (join (var)(var))
end
when I start as a clone
forever
add (crasher) to [crasher v]
end
define crash1
//run without screen refresh
create clone of (myself v)
crash1

PenguinLover1123

Thunderguy77 wrote:
Very possible. A few years ago, I ran one of my own Scratch projects on a school Chromebook and it destroyed the operating system. The only thing that showed up on screen after startup was “ChromeOS is missing”

What is the script??

Verixion

recursion…. aaaa

ScratchCatHELLO

my computer has never crashed because of a scratch project, but whilst running a large amv (I think) project in turbowarp my computer slowed down drastically almost to the point of unresponsiveness :(

I managed to turn it off, turn it on and quickly close the turbowarp tab

interestingly, the lag got worse when I tried to close the tab while the project was running.

Verixion wrote:
recursion…. aaaa

recursion….. aaaaa

Verixion

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
project in turbowarp my computer slowed down drastically almost to the point of unresponsiveness :(

I actually thought turbowarp would handle assets better than scratch's system

kccuber

Verixion wrote:
ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
project in turbowarp my computer slowed down drastically almost to the point of unresponsiveness :(
I actually thought turbowarp would handle assets better than scratch's system

nah, forkphorus does that

AmazingMech2418

kccuber wrote:
Verixion wrote:
ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
project in turbowarp my computer slowed down drastically almost to the point of unresponsiveness :(
I actually thought turbowarp would handle assets better than scratch's system
nah, forkphorus does that

Yeah, TurboWarp just changes how the execution engine works, not assets or stage movement. Forkphorus, however, since completely separate from scratch-gui, updates all of it.

mybearworld

this is against the ToS

kccuber

mybearworld wrote:
this is against the ToS

This is a question. This isn't “Share projects that crash computer”

Last edited by kccuber (Sept. 3, 2021 21:55:37)

god286

Oh no.. Your project crashed my firefox…

TWTG93

You can crash chrome by putting 300MB worth of blocks and sprites since chrome cant use a lot of ram. But it might be possible on a banana pc.

TWTG93

Thunderguy77 wrote:
Very possible. A few years ago, I ran one of my own Scratch projects on a school Chromebook and it destroyed the operating system. The only thing that showed up on screen after startup was “ChromeOS is missing”

Impossible. Unless you pressed ESC+REFRESH+POWER

Stampyneo

AmazingMech2418 wrote:
Most browser-computer combinations have limits to prevent a tab crash from causing a full browser crash or a computer crash, so it's not likely, but it has happened on some older computers (like Windows 7) that I've used before! XD
LankyBox01 wrote:
Somehow i got a bsod from this:
when green flag clicked
create clone of [ v]

when I start as a clone
create clone of [ v]
i think it's time to get a new computer lol
There is a fix already available for this (made by me! XD) but the ST won't implement it until they have time to review it. LOL!

lol scratch clone limit

MagicCrayon9342

No, your system can't crash from a Scratch project unless its utter garbage. If you have a 32-bit 2gb ram 5000 RPM hard drive you need a new machine 100%.

AmazingMech2418

Stampyneo wrote:
AmazingMech2418 wrote:
Most browser-computer combinations have limits to prevent a tab crash from causing a full browser crash or a computer crash, so it's not likely, but it has happened on some older computers (like Windows 7) that I've used before! XD
LankyBox01 wrote:
Somehow i got a bsod from this:
when green flag clicked
create clone of [ v]

when I start as a clone
create clone of [ v]
i think it's time to get a new computer lol
There is a fix already available for this (made by me! XD) but the ST won't implement it until they have time to review it. LOL!
lol scratch clone limit

Not quite! There's actually a different thing with the sequencer that creates an infinite loop if you just delete the clone after creating it, causing a browser crash. It was documented in https://github.com/LLK/scratch-vm/issues/2282 and could be fixed with https://github.com/LLK/scratch-vm/pull/3152, but the PR was closed…

computerlover57587

i got bsod from this:

when green flag clicked
create clone of [ v]
when I start as a clone
create clone of [ v]

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