Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
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Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#2I recognized the presenter's name - Natalie Silvanovich - and sure enough, she's a member of Project Zero, and I've read posts by her before. I guess Tamagochis were her gateway drug into reversing!
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#3Looks like she did finally get her code dump, via voltage glitching:
https://natashenka.ca/tamagotchi-friends-code-dump/#more-281
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#4Looks like she did finally get her code dump, via voltage glitching: https://natashenka.ca/tamagotchi-friends-code-dump/#more-281
Here's a link to some slides I found online.
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/system...
I've been hacking on an Apple ][ over the past few weeks. It runs on a 6502 processor. It's kind of mind-blowing to know that the thing used to run an entire PC was later used for pocket toys like the Tamagotchi a handful of years later. The speed at which technology has improved will never cease to amaze me.
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#5Then there is the Tamagotchi Singularity inspired by an XKCD comic [1]. It is a server full of emulated tamagotchis [2] that interact with each other in a simulator, all running code dumped by Natalie's technique. I'm impressed by both these hacks, especially the combination.
All this is via a Hackaday article. [3]
2. https://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity
3. https://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix...
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#6I wonder how small a 6502 or Z80 CPU would be if fabbed on 3nm TSM processes node. Would it be visible with the naked eye?
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#7I wonder how small a 6502 or Z80 CPU would be if fabbed on 3nm TSM processes node. Would it be visible with the naked eye?
Some napkin math: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/18250
> Let's consider your proposed 8086 done in a 14 nm process. Let's say we do it in CMOS, and maybe even throw in a few extra features, and it takes 100,000 transistors. The die would be very tiny, so unbelievably tiny. You could fit three thousand of them, with room to spare, in a single square millimetre, which is an area likely smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#8I wonder how small a 6502 or Z80 CPU would be if fabbed on 3nm TSM processes node. Would it be visible with the naked eye?
Some napkin math: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/18250 > Let's consider your proposed 8086 done in a 14 nm process. Let's say we do it in CMOS, and maybe even throw in a few extra features, and it takes 100,000 transistors. The die would be very tiny, so unbelievably tiny. You could fit three thousand of them, with room to spare, in a single square millimetre, which is an area likely smaller than the peri…
Of course, you’d still need pins for power…
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#9I wonder how small a 6502 or Z80 CPU would be if fabbed on 3nm TSM processes node. Would it be visible with the naked eye?
Does anyone know what the most advanced node a 6502 or Z80 CPU (or 8051 micro) has actually been fabbed on?
Re: Many Tamagotchis were harmed in the making of this presentation (2012) [video]
#10I recognized the presenter's name - Natalie Silvanovich - and sure enough, she's a member of Project Zero, and I've read posts by her before. I guess Tamagochis were her gateway drug into reversing!
Here is her self-image: https://natashenka.ca/about/