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What is keeping you from dabbling in writing Hardware ?

YJDoc2 on February 19, 2022

Let's face it, if you are writing any program, in any language : you need hardware to run it. If you write C / C++ / Rust code it will compile to ...
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Nirmalya Sengupta

Following you, out of interest.

My interaction with chips ended at Intel 8085, about 3 decades back (using C and a bit of ASM); therefore, my knowledge about this world is severely limited. However, I claim to understand how complicated a S/W emulator for H/W can become, when implemented. Yours is an appreciable initiative.

Will be keen to know where you are on this project.

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YJDoc2

Hey @nsengupta Thanks for commenting! Happy to hear that you are interested in this.

As I had written in a blogpost after this one I have released the first version of this, along with an web-based demo which you can run right in your browser. The post has links for the github repo as well as the demo.

Also as you had mentioned intel 8085, I think you'd also be interested in an 8086 emulator I have built : check the web version or you can read more about in its blogpost

Hope this helps!