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  • furby-source

    Transcribed source code of the "FURBY.ASM - Version 25" PDF from http://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf

  • furby

    Furby emulator

  • It is broken into a few different files by function, but this should get you there. Note that it appears that the original document omitted a few things.

    https://github.com/charlesUnixPro/furby

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  • ghidra-unSP

    SLEIGH specification for u'nSP

  • I'm actually the guy from that post! Never got DOOM running on the Furby, but I was able to get a custom version of Pong running, with accelerometer controlled paddles.

    The CPUs are definitely weird, and I ended up porting Ghidra to support u'nSP as part of that project. https://github.com/SamuelWAnderson45/sleigh-unsp Reverse engineering a CPU was a wildly fun learning experience; still proud of that project.

  • OCR-furby-source-code

    OCR of Furby Source Code available on Archive.org

  • (Not OP.) You got downvoted, but you motivated me to at least run it through an OCR scanner.

    if anyone wants it here you go -

    https://github.com/robss2020/OCR-furby-source-code

    This is just the PDF run through OCR. I did not manually correct anything, and the results aren't great.

  • elks

    Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086

  • Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago.

    https://github.com/jbruchon/elks

    I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.

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