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3030 v1.2 — maintenance
A maintenance release. The programs are unchanged from
v1.1 — same thirteen
tracks, same behaviour. If v1.1 works for you, there is no reason to update.
What changed
The build moved off deprecated GitHub Actions: checkout v4 → v7,
setup-python v5 → v7, upload-artifact v4 → v7. All three targeted Node 20,
which runners were already force-running on Node 24 and will eventually stop
supporting. These binaries are the first built on the current toolchain.
Verified with a dispatched run before tagging, since upload-artifact v4 was
itself a breaking change and jumping three majors is exactly the kind of thing
that looks fine in a diff and fails in CI. It didn't: three platforms green,
zero deprecation warnings, all thirteen tracks self-checking from the built
binary.
The album, as command-line programs
2. y3k 3030 a Y3K compliance checker
4. things Things You Can Do a list where nothing is available
5. contact Positive Contact finds life, files the mineral rights
7. virus Virus a threat that cannot be carried out
8. upgrade Upgrade a promise kept, meaning nothing
9. newcoke New Coke a rebrand ending with two products
10. mastermind Mastermind a lock, ten tries
12. madness Madness ten thousand cases, none can fail
14. slipping Time Keeps On Slipping a clock correct for about a minute
15. news The News the disclosure outgrows the story
16. turbulence Turbulence a route that reaches nothing
18. battlesong Battlesong two sorts, six rounds, real timings
20. memory Memory Loss memory climbs, the work erodes
Linux / macOS: tar xzf deltron-v1.2-*.tar.gz && ./deltron
macOS is arm64 and unsigned — right-click → Open, or
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine deltron.
Windows: run the .exe. SmartScreen will grumble about an unsigned binary
from a repo containing a file called virus.py, which is fair of it.
Or skip the download — every track is stdlib-only Python with a shebang.
They still do nothing to your computer. See the README's safety rails.
Unofficial, non-commercial homage. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Deltron
3030, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, or Kid Koala. Lyrics quoted
as a short excerpt with attribution; all riffs are original. Code is MIT — the
songs aren't ours to give.
3030 v1.1 — thirteen tracks, with sound
Deltron 3030 is a concept album from 2000 about a mech soldier rap battling
through a corporate dystopia in the year 3030. Half its tracklist describes
technology failing people in ways that turn out to be very easy to render in
a terminal.
So: the album, as command-line programs. One file per track, thirteen of
them, stdlib only.
2. y3k 3030 a Y3K compliance checker
4. things Things You Can Do a list where nothing is available
5. contact Positive Contact finds life, files the mineral rights
7. virus Virus a threat that cannot be carried out
8. upgrade Upgrade a promise kept, meaning nothing
9. newcoke New Coke a rebrand ending with two products
10. mastermind Mastermind a lock, ten tries
12. madness Madness ten thousand cases, none can fail
14. slipping Time Keeps On Slipping a clock correct for about a minute
15. news The News the disclosure outgrows the story
16. turbulence Turbulence a route that reaches nothing
18. battlesong Battlesong two sorts, six rounds, real timings
20. memory Memory Loss memory climbs, the work erodes
New in v1.1
Twelve more tracks than v1.0, which shipped virus alone.
Sound on all three platforms. v1.0 used winsound.Beep, which is
Windows-only and plays one note at a time. Audio is now synthesised as a WAV
in memory with stdlib wave and handed to whatever the machine has —
winsound on Windows, aplay/paplay on Linux, afplay on macOS. Thirteen
cues, one per track. No player means silence, not an error. Sound is off
automatically when stdout is not a terminal.
MIDI for every track — python music.py writes midi/*.mid, hand-rolled
struct.pack, no library.
They still do nothing to your computer
No writes outside the repo (one exception: macOS audio writes a temp WAV,
because afplay cannot read stdin, and deletes it). No self-replication, no
network, no persistence. turbulence cannot reach anything: no sockets in the
file, every host on .3030, a TLD that does not exist — and its self-check
asserts it. y3k is the only one that does something real, and it exits 1 on
findings so it works in CI.
Every program self-checks, and the checks assert the jokes, not just the
code: that the ETA gets worse before it gets better, that This will only take a moment is the longest step, that Madness's oracle still cannot fail, that
Positive Contact never grows a reply step.
Run it
deltron the tracklist
deltron virus play a track
deltron mastermind the one you can lose
Linux / macOS: tar xzf deltron-v1.1-*.tar.gz && ./deltron
macOS is arm64 and unsigned — right-click → Open, or
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine deltron.
Windows: run the .exe. SmartScreen will grumble about an unsigned binary
from a repo containing a file called virus.py, which is fair of it.
Or skip all of this. Every track is stdlib-only Python with a shebang:
./deltron.py virus needs no download.
Unofficial, non-commercial homage. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Deltron
3030, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, or Kid Koala. Lyrics quoted
as a short excerpt with attribution; all riffs are original. Code is MIT — the
songs aren't ours to give.
deltron3030.com — they are touring. Better use
of an evening than any of this.
VIRUS v3030.1
"I want to devise a virus / to bring dire straits to your environment /
crash your whole computer system / and revert you to papyrus"
— Deltron 3030, Virus (2000)
Somebody had to try. Four acts of theater that do nothing to your computer:
a fake boot, the impossible requirements failing deadpan, a Win95 folder bomb
rendered rather than executed, and a terminal that slowly fills with papyrus.
It does nothing. On purpose.
No writes outside its own directory, no self-replication, no network, no
subprocess, no persistence. Act 3's folder bomb is print() in a loop — the
counter climbs to 2047 and your disk stays exactly where it was. Run
virus --check and it asserts all of that, then prints
ok: 4 acts, terminal restored, 0 files harmed.
Yes, the repo is called virus. That's the joke. Read
virus.py — it's one
stdlib file, and the whole thing fits on a couple of screens.
Run it
virus the full bit, ~45s, bassline on
virus --fast no sleeps, two seconds
virus --mute no bassline
virus --check the self-check
Linux / macOS: tar xzf virus-v1.0-*.tar.gz && ./virus
The macOS build is arm64 and unsigned — right-click → Open the first time, or
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine virus.
Windows: run the .exe. SmartScreen will grumble about an unsigned binary
from the internet named virus.exe, which is honestly fair of it.
Or skip all of this. virus.py is stdlib-only Python with a shebang —
chmod +x virus.py && ./virus.py needs no download at all.
Also in here
virus.mid — the bassline as a real MIDI file, hand-rolled struct.pack, no
library. Original notes, not a transcription of the Automator's instrumental.
Unofficial, non-commercial homage. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Deltron
3030, Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, or Kid Koala. Lyrics quoted
as a short excerpt with attribution; rights remain with their owners. Code is
MIT — the song isn't ours to give.
Go buy the album. It's better than this.