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A project log for Brute force TIS-100

Hacking a retrocomputer that never was

treibairtreibair 07/21/2016 at 11:560 Comments

That took longer than expected. TIS-100 failed to recognize the backspace presses during the first test. That could be cured with some extra delay after each keystroke.

What turned out to be quite annoying is that TIS-100 is prone to crashing after a few hours on my machine. This is rather annoying since I am running the acquisition of screenshots over night just to find out that instead logging everything from AAA to ZZZ the process stopped working at e.g. FTM.

Furthermore there are some wrong screenshots every so often, probably because a spike in the system load prevented a clean execution of all the keystrokes (I'm looking at you, Windows updater...).

Anyway, the screenshots are acquired. At least hopefully, there might be some irregular entries. I will have to sort that out during the octave analysis.

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