Can the sim be built and debugged on MSDev? Has anybody tried and wants to
share their project?

I've already set up a VC8 project that can do an all-in build via Cygwin
((re)build, zip, install to device) so you can browse and edit the code
there. If anybody wants that, let me know.

(and no, I won't shift from MSDev unless I have to).

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