A couple of fine chaps named Julian Adams and Clement Dagneau from my previous company Black Rock Studios (née Climax Racing) took it upon themselves to tackle the daunting task of porting MockItNow to x64 (MSVC).
They’ve kindly shared their efforts back with the main repository in google code. Feel free to profit from their hard work!
Thanks a lot Julian & Clement!
A couple of weeks ago, I was looking for a fun project to do with my 8 year old son. By chance, I saw a recent issue of Make Magazine which had a feature about an electronics prototyping platform called Arduino. I thought it sounded pretty cool, and could be a good introduction for my son to some basic electronics as well as some simple programming.
The Arduino is designed to be very easy to use. It comes with a set of tools based on the Wiring programming environment and libraries. The board is controlled by an Atmel 8-bit microprocessor. In comparison to what I spend my days working with, this is a very simple processor. No vector registers, no floating point registers. Even something as simple as adding two 32-bit numbers requires three assembly instructions (add word, add byte with carry, add byte with carry).
