Emu86 is open source: contributors welcomed!

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This is a fun project -- I love writing interpreters! -- and it should be very helpful in giving students an idea of what assembly language is like without having to actually learn to run an assembler, and then a symbolic debugger for when their program breaks, etc. There's lots of features we can add: help with syntax, improved editing, more instructions, etc.

The source code is here.

Let me know if you are interested in joining the project.

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  1. Samson Corwell11:31 PM

    I don't like the direction x86 processors are going in. Have you heard about AMD's PSP and Intel's Management Engine and Boot Guard.

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  2. Samson Corwell11:31 PM

    Your project needs a mascot.

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  3. Samson Corwell3:16 PM

    Would you say an interpreter is equivalent to an emulator? What is there to separate your project from QEMU other than the number of features?

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    1. gcallah7:27 PM

      No, very different things.

      The projects have quite different goals: QEMU is for launching operatings systems on a machine where you normally couldn't run it.

      What I am doing is for students to learn assembly language.

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