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Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

59 points by Schweigi 13y ago

ktr100 13y ago
this thing is awesome!
thinkpad20 13y ago
'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.
- s-macke 13y ago
  When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator? I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)
  - simcop2387 13y ago
    That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....
    - s-macke 13y ago
      Your are talking to the author of that emulator :) It would be much easier for an x86 emulator. I tried only the Javascript engines from Google and Chrome so far. Of course they all fail to compile with an unsupported platform error using the OpenRISC toolchain. I am wondering which one is more compatible for cross-compiling.
      - simcop2387 13y ago
        I wonder if a standard webkit-gtk might be doable just because it does support running without a JIT from some googling. I imagine it'll be slow as anything could be, but it might work.
        s-macke 13y ago
        ./configure ..... . . . Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path Looks not so bad. This not an absolute no ;)
- tjdetwiler 13y ago
  And another: http://tjdetwiler.github.io/hcf/ http://tjdetwiler.github.io/hcf/ It's a shame 0x10c isn't a thing anymore.
  - s-macke 13y ago
    I can understand the developer why they cancelled the project. This is a game only hackers would like. The big question is still, how to learn programming like it would be a game. The best example in my opinion is the game spacechem in my opinion. http://www.spacechemthegame.com/ http://www.spacechemthegame.com/
acc01 13y ago
This is not an assembler simulator (i'd enjoy having one, though), it's a 8-bit computer simulator that includes an assembler.
jamesjporter 13y ago
Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))
- andrewsw 13y ago
  I did a very minimal one for MIPS, based on SPIM and written in Haskell. It was a fun project in learning and abstracting patterns. Highly recommended, IMO.
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samsaga2 13y ago
Related: https://github.com/samsaga2/js80 https://github.com/samsaga2/js80 I'm writing a z80 assembler for nodejs.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  Let me know if you ever write an emulator.
  - samsaga2 13y ago
    There is already one. A ZX Spectrum emulator [http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/ http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/]
elefonts 13y ago
How does it vibrate my android device on step?

59 points by Schweigi 13y ago

ktr100 13y ago

this thing is awesome!

thinkpad20 13y ago

'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.

s-macke 13y ago
When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator? I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)
- simcop2387 13y ago
  That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....
  - s-macke 13y ago
    Your are talking to the author of that emulator :) It would be much easier for an x86 emulator. I tried only the Javascript engines from Google and Chrome so far. Of course they all fail to compile with an unsupported platform error using the OpenRISC toolchain. I am wondering which one is more compatible for cross-compiling.
    - simcop2387 13y ago
      I wonder if a standard webkit-gtk might be doable just because it does support running without a JIT from some googling. I imagine it'll be slow as anything could be, but it might work.
      - s-macke 13y ago
        ./configure ..... . . . Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path Looks not so bad. This not an absolute no ;)
tjdetwiler 13y ago
And another: http://tjdetwiler.github.io/hcf/ http://tjdetwiler.github.io/hcf/ It's a shame 0x10c isn't a thing anymore.
- s-macke 13y ago
  I can understand the developer why they cancelled the project. This is a game only hackers would like. The big question is still, how to learn programming like it would be a game. The best example in my opinion is the game spacechem in my opinion. http://www.spacechemthegame.com/ http://www.spacechemthegame.com/

acc01 13y ago

This is not an assembler simulator (i'd enjoy having one, though), it's a 8-bit computer simulator that includes an assembler.

jamesjporter 13y ago

Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))

andrewsw 13y ago
I did a very minimal one for MIPS, based on SPIM and written in Haskell. It was a fun project in learning and abstracting patterns. Highly recommended, IMO.

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samsaga2 13y ago

Related: https://github.com/samsaga2/js80 https://github.com/samsaga2/js80 I'm writing a z80 assembler for nodejs.

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
Let me know if you ever write an emulator.
- samsaga2 13y ago
  There is already one. A ZX Spectrum emulator [http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/ http://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/]

elefonts 13y ago

How does it vibrate my android device on step?