I've made two posts about the design of my emulation so far and we haven't got very far into the nitty gritty. The actual work, though, is much further ahead. In fact, I've got to the first major milestone as exemplified from this log of the most recent run of the zexdoc tests. This tests … Continue reading A Milestone
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The Fetch Execute Loop
If you read any introduction to writing emulators, they all tell you to do the same thing. You write a loop that continually fetches instructions and executes them. Notice that I put the fetch after the execute. Doing so makes certain aspects of the design cleaner such as coming in to the loop first time. … Continue reading The Fetch Execute Loop
Beginnings
So I'm building a Spectrum emulation. Having done a 6502, I thought it would be fun to do something different and try to document it along the way. I'm a bit late getting going since the actual work has already progressed quite a way. Objective I want to build a functional emulator for the ZX … Continue reading Beginnings
