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Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console porting are only revealed years after the end of the consoles lifetime.

As an aside, reading about this kind of deeply interesting work always makes me envious when I think about the rote software I spend all day writing :)

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At least back when I was working these "blessed" tools were usually a tad hacked together, modern homebrew toolchains for many older platforms are better except for debugging support (since the devkits for the machines usually had better hooks available but also avoiding the entire GDB focus).

Having been in both worlds, i'm not entirely sure there's that much to be envious of.

well said!

as I was just sitting down to another day of ruby on rails (that I am grateful for!) I was thinking.. I wonder what hobby/open source projects could use some of my attention later..

.. what projects my attention could use later .. :D

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