Serial does not work on attiny85 with arduino uno

andresilva:
...the bad thing is that I'll have to send the codes using the arduino and then test using or usb-ttl...

http://www.ernstc.dk/arduino/tinycom.html

The sections of interest are TinyISP and Knock-Bang and TinyISP and Serial Relay. An AVR Teensy works great for such things.