8080
A complete emulation of the Intel 8080 processor written in C99. (by superzazu)
6502
MOS 6502 Emulator in C (by morrigan-plus-plus)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
8080
Posts with mentions or reviews of 8080.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Help with TST8080
Looking at the code for that test, the first things it executes are these:
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Looking for some 8080 "Philosophy" answers/research
Find an emulator that you know is correctly running the test binaries. You can use this for example.
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Yet Another Space Invaders Emulator Question: Player death at startup
Or you could dump the state of the CPU every tick in your emulator and in some other emulator you know works (I've used https://github.com/superzazu/8080/ for that in the past), and diff the results.
6502
Posts with mentions or reviews of 6502.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-31.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing 8080 and 6502 you can also consider the following projects:
z80 - A z80 emulator written in C99.
lzsa - Byte-aligned, efficient lossless packer that is optimized for fast decompression on 8-bit micros
Z80 - Highly portable Zilog Z80 CPU emulator written in ANSI C
puNES - Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)
c8080 - Bare 8080 cpu emulator
hacknes - A "hackable" NES emulator
c64-bitcoin-miner - C64 Bitcoin miner
glibc - GNU Libc
apultra - Free open-source compressor for apLib with 5-7% better ratios