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by UncleMeat 1254 days ago
This one is my least favorite one of his, actually. The big problem is that it just didn't actually really work. Tom7 seems to start these projects only a couple weeks before sigbovik deadline (an incredible feat I marvel at regularly) so it is no surprise that some of them end up falling apart (harder drives with the cue carts failed too) but I really wish this one had worked.

The C Compiler that only emits the printable bytes is my favorite one by a mile. The executables can only jump forward and only by an offset between two modestly large numbers. This makes laying out the code in the executable a really interesting problem and relies on weird old behavior where the instruction pointer can wrap on overflow. Wild!