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Universal Emulator & Assembler for Old Microprocessors

virtual-mpu

Old Microprocessor Emulator and Assembler

Installation

raco pkg install virtual-mpu

Assembler Usage

Generate a S-Record file (Motorola format):

virtual-mpu assemble to-s-record myfile.asm > myfile.srec

Display result in hexadecimal in the terminal (useful for debugging):

virtual-mpu assemble to-hex myfile.asm

Put result into a program binary:

virtual-mpu assemble to-binary myfile.asm > myfile.bin

Emulator usage

Start the emulator (WIP)

(this does not work yet)

virtual-mpu emulate machines/mymachine.rkt mykernel.bin

Supported MPUs:

  • Motorola 6802 (used mostly in pinball machines)

Planned:

  • MOS 6502 (used in 8bit Atari models, Apple II, NES, Commodore 64...)
  • Motorola 68000, aka. m68k (used in Apple Lisa, Macintosh, Amiga, Neo Geo, Mega Drive, Atari Jaguar, Saturn...)
  • Zilog Z80 (used in ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Sega Master System, Nintendo Game Boy, GBC, GBA)
  • Intel 8080 (used in Altair 8800, Space Invaders)