Oh that's an interesting idea. I actually considered writing my own assembler to some format that I could read, but then I realized: * It's way cooler if you c

Oh that's an interesting idea. I actually considered writing my own assembler to some format that I could read, but then I realized: * It's way cooler if you can use other peoples' assemblers and still have your bytecode interpreter work * Using other peoples' assemblers is a good way to sanity check any assumptions you made (this bit me with branches, for example; I was branching from the location of the current instruction when the spec is to branch from the location of the next instruction) * It's easier to read binary than to read hex strings and transform them to binary. Plus, transforming binaries to readable hex is as easy as "hexdump -c". :)