Welcome to emuStudio
emuStudio is a desktop application used for computer emulation and writing programs for emulated computers. It extensible; it encourages developers to write their own computer emulators.
The main goal of emuStudio is to support the "compile-load-emulate" workflow, aiming at students or anyone to help to learn about older but important computers or even abstract machines.
emuStudio is very appropriate for use at schools, e.g. when students are doing first steps in assembler, or when they are taught about computer history. For example, emuStudio is used at the Technical University of KoΕ‘ice since 2007.
Available emulators
BIG THANKS
Big thanks goes to the one and only simh project, which inspired me a lot, and helped me as a student and emulator enthusiast when working on emuStudio. I wish emuStudio will reach it's simplicity and emulators "richness" as the simh project has.
Getting started
At first, either compile or download emuStudio. The prerequisite is to have installed Java, at least version 11 (download here).
Then, unzip the tar/zip file (emuStudio-xxx.zip) and run it using command:
- On Linux / Mac
> ./emuStudio
- On Windows:
> emuStudio.bat
NOTE: Currently supported are Linux and Windows. Mac is NOT supported, but it might work to some extent.
For more information, please read user documentation.
Contributing
Anyone can contribute. Before start, please read developer documentation, which includes information like:
- Which tools to use and how to set up the environment
- How to compile emuStudio and prepare local releases
- Which git branch to use
- Which rules needs to be followed
Related projects
There exist some additional projects, which are used by emuStudio, useful for contributors:
- emuLib, a run-time library
- edigen, an emulator disassembler generator
- cpu-testsuite, a JUnit-based test suite for comfortable testing of CPU plugins