Hello Coding Badly,
Thank you very much for improving my example C-code. Probably I will never reach this level 
http://www.rudiswiki.de/wiki9/AVRTinyISP#KnockBang_serial_protocol
I am answering so late, because I struggled a day finding a loose contact on my breadboard
But now I have a compact and clever debugging tool for the ATtiny's.
Best regards, Rudolf