cpmulator

Golang CP/M emulator for playing zork, lighthouse-of-doom, etc (by skx)

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  • Show HN: A simple Golang CP/M emulator that can run Zork
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2024
  • Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
    A while back I wrote a game in assembly, for CP/M. Since I have a single-board Z80-based computer on which I can run it.

    I later ported the game to the ZX Spectrum, because that was a fun challenge, and I only needed a few basic I/O operations - "write to screen", "read a line of input", etc, etc.

    It occurred to me that I could reimplement the very few CP/M BIOS functions and combine those implementatiosn with a Z80 emulator to run it "natively". So I did that, then I wondered what it would take to run Zork and other games.

    Slowly I've been reimplementing the necessary CP/M BDOS functions so that I can run more and more applications. I'm not going to go crazy, anything with sectors/disks is out of scope, but adding the file-based I/O functions takes me pretty far.

    At the moment I've got an annoying bug where the Aztec C-compiler doesn't quite work under my emulator and I'm trying to track it down. The C-compiler produces an assembly file which is 100% identical to that produced on my real hardware, but for some reason the assembler output from compiling that file is broken - I suspect I've got something wrong with my file-based I/O, but I've not yet resolved the problem.

    TLDR; writing a CP/M emulator in golang, and getting more and more software running on it - https://github.com/skx/cpmulator

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skx/cpmulator is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of cpmulator is Go.


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