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Dev log My platform, DANGCSA/DANGXA , now has a specific protocol on how to handle numerics. The processor implementation, the DLU, instantiates a new coprocessor called the DMU , or DANGLING Math Unit, which runs addition, multiplication, and division. n-dimensional tensors are
MISC r0.5.0 is defined! Today I finished working on MISC r0.5.0, which brings in machine widening to 64-bit and 8 new registers , besides other, smaller upgrades. The most visible change, however, is that this revision brings in a rename of the architecture. When I started workin
Dev log The other day I was working on House of Hex in the middle of the night, most photons coming from nowhere but my monitors and keyboard underlight. I had my window open for some time prior but not at that moment. Suddenly I saw a dark blob repeatedly crashing into my second
disclaimer: some may find some of this content opinionated, but it stems from arbitrary external authorities making choices on users' behalf and not allowing that to be changed. Various manifestations of that occur on the x86 and in existing kernels > Someone: "Virtual memory
Dev log #13 Welcome to the next devlog! This one is both a dev log and a Hardware Sniffers entry to tell you a bit more about the MISC platform . A few years ago I started designing a programming language that I thought I wanted for systems programming. I still did and even now d
MISC has its own executable format called "EMIRU." The E xecutable M inimal I mage R elocatable U nary E : has a start and can be jmp'd to M : doesn't include overhead, such as relocation tables I : is a set of bytes loaded directly into memory, at a program base, by the kernel R
There were unique and progression-important achievements in Crosstalk that were meant to be secret, however due to a scoping bug Valve leaked their names, descriptions, and images to the likes of SteamDB. All achievements are thereby removed from the game. New ones may be added l
Crosstalk hasn't reached its wishlist critical mass by today's release date, so it is postponed to a later date this year. Valve and other sources maintain that wishlists are a critical component of release time traction, and there is only one Crosstalk release, so it's better to
The board mentioned in this post as having been done by the fab has arrived! The conclusion that there are some improvements to be made remains, so this post is just to show a bit more photos.
Welcome to the next Hardware Sniffers post entry. Today, the topic is the DLU, which stands for the DANGLING Logic Unit , and it is the first CPU of the MISC architecture . The DLU consists of the following parts: dangalu.sv: the DANGLING Arithmetic Logic Unit dangdsu.sv: the DAN
Previous achievements are being removed so that the initial Early Access release state of the game contains only those that can be awarded at that time. They will return once EDA features return.
The M inimal I nstruction S et C omputer is a 32-bit Sail-validated instruction set architecture created very early in the development of the various parts that comprise Crosstalk, specifically to perform daily computing operations without unnecessary overhead and complexity. MIS
View game page Hardware Sniffers is a MISC-native game that attempts to teach people enough about computer architecture and numbers that they'd have no problem reading memory dumps and recognizing hex patterns at a glance, esp. alignment, pointers, structs, and hex-ASCII conversi
Dev log #12 Hey there! The original 1993 "Second Reality" demo by the Future Crew is coming as a free DLC, usable from within the DANGLING kernel. Credit to the Future Crew and its members involved in the original demo: Psi, Trug, Wildfire, Purple Motion, Skaven, Marvel, Pixel, G
The first game native to the MISC architecture will be released one day after the game releases and will serve as a mandatory gate to two other pieces of DLC. View game page
DLC announced for Crosstalk will serve as a public roadmap during the Early Access phase of development. Incidentally, another benefit falling out of that is that players will be able to pick what they want to use and preserve storage on what they don't. Most DLC will be free.
Hello, I decided to remove the announced Linux support for Crosstalk. The latest build doesn't link statically, and I will not ship it with dynamic linking except where necessary, such as with the Steamworks SDK, which is only provided as a shared object. Distros mostly ship shar
Hey there! Crosstalk's early testing is currently open and ready to accept new players. If you'd like to participate, then please join the Discord server: . As always, if you like the game, then don't forget to wishlist to stay tuned: View game page Thanks!
Having cleared some minor obstacles that were preventing Crosstalk from running on Linux, it's now scheduled for a Linux release on the same day as the Windows version.
Hello. As posted about a month ago, Crosstalk was postponed because I couldn't validate that the PCB export functionality was working correctly. Many things related to Crosstalk's timeline and initial content have changed since, but I still wanted to post about the result. The fa