6502
MOS 6502 Emulator in C (by morrigan-plus-plus)
8080
A complete emulation of the Intel 8080 processor written in C99. (by superzazu)
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6502
Posts with mentions or reviews of 6502.
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8080
Posts with mentions or reviews of 8080.
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing 6502 and 8080 you can also consider the following projects:
lzsa - Byte-aligned, efficient lossless packer that is optimized for fast decompression on 8-bit micros
z80 - A z80 emulator written in C99.
puNES - Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)
Z80 - Highly portable Zilog Z80 CPU emulator written in ANSI C
hacknes - A "hackable" NES emulator
c8080 - Bare 8080 cpu emulator
c64-bitcoin-miner - C64 Bitcoin miner
glibc - GNU Libc
apultra - Free open-source compressor for apLib with 5-7% better ratios