Came across <https://challenge.synacor.com/> - Mad...

# advent-of-code

[ritesh]

Came across https://challenge.synacor.com/ - Made by Eric

[Paul Woitaschek]

Uh interesting! How far did you get?
Mine always fails with that registry logic:

https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/SynacorChallenge/blob/main/src/main/kotlin/de/woitaschek/synacorchallenge/challenge.kt

Welcome to the Synacor Challenge!
Please record your progress by putting codes like
this one into the challenge website: yfJPYSkhjVuM

Executing self-test...

no set op

[Paul Woitaschek]

So something with the set seems to break

[Jan Durovec]

@Paul Woitaschek it tells you that your "set" operation is not implemented correctly. To be specific, in your registers[a()] = b() the a() returns your register value, not index

[ritesh]

Paul - Didn't get time to solve. I was planning to look at it somewhere around later week. You are fast!

[Paul Woitaschek]

Thanks @Jan Durovec. Finished my VM now 🙂

[Jan Durovec]

Great. I was stuck on getting code 7 most of the day. However, I've got it now so I wonder if getting the last one (tomorrow?) will be also that hard.

[Paul Woitaschek]

Why code 7? Isn’t that one of the more trivial ones?

[Paul Woitaschek]

To me that not one was the most hard to understand one, I’m not good at these bitmasks stuff

[Paul Woitaschek]

Ah lol you mean secret code 7 not op Code? 😁

[Jan Durovec]

Yes I meant the secret code 7 :)

[Jan Durovec]

8/8 💪

[ephemient]

FYI for anybody arriving at this thread by searching for "synacor": the domain is now dead blob scream you can find some backups elsewhere, for example https://github.com/Aneurysm9/vm_challenge

[Paul Woitaschek]

In mine I also have the challenge in the readme

https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/SynacorChallenge and the data here: https://github.com/PaulWoitaschek/SynacorChallenge/blob/main/src/main/resources/challenge.bin