I finally bit the bullet and threw myself into PPC assembly. And what better way to ease you into your first assembly since 1998 than writing an assembler! It’s been a long couple of days but finally — finally! — it compiled and ran:

3c600fb4606368e43880003a3d400f6e614a82607d48
03a64e8000213d400fe5614a7ba07d4803a64e800021

Check back Monday to see if that’s garbage…