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Cool. I've been sporadically spending time going through the microcorruption game since I was clued into its existence a few weeks back when Starfighter was on the front page, and find it really enjoyable (if frustrating much of the time ;)

I haven't really had a compelling reason to pop into a gdb-style debugger for over a decade (sice I was in college), but it comes back pretty fast. My biggest problem is actually not letting my half-remembered knowledge from back then keep you from researching what is really going on because you think you know what's happening.

Yep, Starfighter was definitely the inspiration for this.

It was super fun dusting off the cobwebs from my EE degree (over a decade ago for me too) and diving back into Assembly.

Yeah, I thought the atmel sounded familiar for what they were doing, then noticed the interface looked quite a bit similar to microcorruption (well, a debugger interface in general I guess), and then I saw the blurb in the about box about starfighter.

I'm definitely excited about starfighter. My first impression from the descriptive tidbits I've heard so far make it sound like a close relative to Notch/Mojang's 0x10C[1], which I was sad to see cancelled.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

Very cool! I've been working on the microcorruption CTF myself, and it inspired me to work on a MSP430 emulator. From the newsletter that the folks at Starfighter sent out a few weeks ago, emulating the AVR is tricker so kudos to you.

Cool!

To be fair, we've only implemented 7 opcodes out of ~150 so far. But thanks!

OK that makes me feel much better about mine. I have about 20 instructions left to do.

Cool. I've been slowly implementing instructions for a 8 bit AVR using Haxe.

A somewhat less than impressive display is at http://fingswotidun.com/avr/

I have wondered though, what is the IP status of implementing an instruction set? I would like to think that it is something that should be freely implementable for interoperability purposes, but then again the entire Java/Android lawsuit thing makes me wonder if compatible interfaces are a minefield in general.

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