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The drifblim assembler has a tiny hidden feature - it's not really a feature, it's more of a of side-effect from some other system - that allows to live-reload a project.

If you create a .drifblim file, fill it will an input and output path, and a non-zero value. The assembler will prefill its zero-page with the content of the file on load.

So that allows me to never have to re-assemble a #uxn rom when I work. It's kind of hard to explain, so I made a little video.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/drifblim#project-mode

~rabbits/drifblim - sourcehut git

git.sr.ht
#uxn
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sirjofri
sirjofri
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wow, that's incredible. I know other systems like live coding that try to achieve that (and actually do), but they're all complex systems and they're not 100% reliable.

Though, can you also change functions, like add new functions and call them or delete one function? Does that work?
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DHeadshot's Alt
DHeadshot's Alt
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I noticed the loader.rom assembles things sometimes - is this how that works?
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Devine Lu Linvega
Devine Lu Linvega
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@ddlyh yup, Drifblim is a self-hosted assembler, which reads the content of `.drifblim` at 0000 in memory on launch.

So when used as launcher, it auto-assembles and then loads that rom in memory, and jumps to the reset vector.
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