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What I really hope for is a backend for the Motorola 68000. That way we would be able to do homebrew in Rust for the megadrive/master system, various atari and

by maeln 8y ago

What I really hope for is a backend for the Motorola 68000. That way we would be able to do homebrew in Rust for the megadrive/master system, various atari and apple computer in rust :) . I saw some work on a llvm-m68k backend but it was nowhere near ready.

zozbot123 8y ago
The Sega Master System was purely Z80-based though. Anyway, a m68k backend is in development, there are fairly recent news about this. It's not clear if it will ever be included in the official LLVM release, though.
- maeln 8y ago
  It use Z80 as a slave CPU but the main CPU is the m68k :) . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis#Technical_specifications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis#Technical_specifi...
  - maeln 8y ago
    I sorry, i see that I mistake the megadrive / genesis with the master system.