Unboxing: Hackerboxes 0040

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Supposedly it is somewhat trivial to "circumvent" the requirement to pay for a compiler with optimisation levels unlocked. It involves compiling a program which just returns a code of 6 or something like that, and taking a checksum of that binary and placing it in to another binary.

Still a lot more effort than you should have to go to, but at least it is a more or less trivial "fix" - no encryption, signed binaries etc (yet, I suppose).

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Lol, I'm learning PICs with the free XC8 compiler just for the experience. I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees their business model as a major turn off though.

The kinda sad thing is that the PICs in this box are ancient. I believe those are supported by the much older Open Source toolchain that works with the SDCC compiler. Although I think those older μC's are primarily programmed in Assembly. μchip doesn't support the older stuff with all of the better MPlabX IDE features in an obvious attempt to further monetize things others do for free and create a generational/periodic obsolescence type product.

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