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Crosstalk is a hardware architecture design sandbox with a built-in, fully inspectable simulator and emulator. Players can build designs ranging from LED controllers to complex computers using SystemVerilog, then program them. It has a gate-level simulator, introspection tools, a compiler, and more.
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Review score: 80% on 2026-11-01 โ 80% today (5 reviews)
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the first merge window
The first merge window of Crosstalk is now open. It is taking place on the Steam 0.1-mergewindow branch, which you can subscribe to early to get latest additions, or just wait for 0.2 on the mainline.
0.1-rc3: fix(rtl): support endmodule and others with a semicolon; run comb once at load 0.1-rc3: fix(rtl): unparsable procedural cont assignment, assign; missing diagnostic text, where known; missing guide pages 0.1-rc3: fix(rtl; logging): no freerun comb-onlyโฆ
Yesterday after the switch to the new way of launching the game, players outside the password-protected testing branch were unable to launch the game via Steam. This is now fixed. The new launch option is available to everyone.
Release candidate 1 round init initial AGPLv3-only public release
After a little more than a week of the game being released on Steam, I've seen that it's not a good platform for this game after all. Games that are set to free are claimable by any Steam account, which currently includes bots or at least partially automated aโฆ
Whenever a new minor release is pushed, a merge window opens. Those who would like to contribute, as per the CONTRIBUTING file, can submit patches by email. They can do so during the window to petition to being included in the following release.After a merge wโฆ
Crosstalk is now AGPLv3-onlyThe main Crosstalk package has now switched to a source-only distribution with a distribution manager utility called the DANGLING Ecosystem Manager included to help compile and keep Crosstalk up-to-date.Enclosed in the source distriโฆ
Dev logHey, all.I have decided to make the source available early. To my genuine surprise, I managed to get my long-lasting dev Crosstalk project open in the new ASCII renderer, which is provided by my utility lib, LDG. The menus also mostly display correctly โฆ
Crosstalk releases now!I thought about this for quite a bit, once again, since my custom license was something that no one has looked over and legally validated. I also had a chat with someone interested in the game whose opinion was that the terms of my custoโฆ
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I have started a fingerd service on one of my servers for regular updates on the DANGLING ecosystem, including Crosstalk and my utility lib, libdangling.finger [email protected] should work if you have finger installed. Otherwise, printf 'dangling\\r\\n'โฆ
To maintain a functional ecosystem across potential forks, the license under which Crosstalk and the rest of the ecosystem will be distributed is going to be a custom license called the DANGLING Ecosystem License, version 1 instead of the GPLv3, which was origโฆ
Dev logI gave this a lot of thought since a decision like this is not fully reversible, but Crosstalk will become GPLv3 DELv1 AGPLv3-only-licensed and its copy that comes natively with DANGCSA/DANGXA via the emulator will become free with no integrated purchasโฆ
Dev logOne of the reasons why I am building a platform is that what exists doesn't do what I want or behave the way I want it to behave. I am not making any assertions regarding what's "better" or "worse," but from my perspective, some of the decisions that thโฆ
Dev logMy 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-dimensiโฆ
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. Whenโฆ
Dev logThe 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 crasโฆ
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: โฆ
Dev log #13Welcome 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 diโฆ
MISC has its own executable format called "EMIRU."The Executable Minimal Image Relocatable UnaryE: has a start and can be jmp'd toM: doesn't include overhead, such as relocation tablesI: is a set of bytes loaded directly into memory, at a program base, by the โฆ
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