Uxn

A stack-based VM, written in ANSI C.

Setup

If you wish to build your own emulator, you can create a new instance of Uxn like:

#include "uxn.h"

Uxn u;

if(!bootuxn(&u))
	return error("Boot", "Failed");
if(!loaduxn(&u, argv[1]))
	return error("Load", "Failed");
if(!init())
	return error("Init", "Failed");

evaluxn(u, u->vreset); /* Once on start */
evaluxn(u, u->vframe); /* Each frame

Uxambly

Read more in the Uxambly Guide.

( hello world )

%RTN { JMP2r }

( devices )

|0100 ;Console { pad 8 char 1 byte 1 short 2 }
|01F0 .RESET .FRAME .ERROR ( vectors )
|01F8 [ 13fd 1ef3 1bf2 ] ( palette )

( program )

|0200 @RESET 
	
	,text1 ,print-label JSR2
	,text2 ,print-label JSR2
	#ab =Console.byte
	#cdef =Console.short

BRK

@print-label ( text )
	
	$loop NOP
		( send ) DUP2 LDR =Console.char
		( incr ) #0001 ADD2
		( loop ) DUP2 LDR #00 NEQ ^$loop MUL JMP 
	POP2

RTN    

@text1 [ Welcome 20 to 20 UxnVM 0a00 ]
@text2 [ Hello 20 World 0a00 ] 

|c000 @FRAME
|d000 @ERROR 

TODOs

OS Boot Disk

• Load external disk in disk2

Assembler

• Includes
• Defines
• Jump helpers
• LDRS should load from the zeropage?
• A fast way(2 bytes) to read from the zero page #aa LDR.

Notes

Palettes

• [ 6a03 4a0d aa0c ], purple/cyan
• [ a1f3 a14d a16c ], grey-pink/teal

Refs

https://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/a7f9946e238f/sys/src/games/nes/cpu.c http://www.w3group.de/stable_glossar.html http://www.emulator101.com/6502-addressing-modes.html http://forth.works/8f0c04f616b6c34496eb2141785b4454 https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/