8086-Emulator

An Intel 8086 Emulator created in Rust.

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What it is

An Intel 8086 Emulator created in Rust.

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Apr 10, 17:00	2023-04-10 17:00:00 UTC	2023-04-10 18:00:00 UTC	1	1
Apr 10, 18:00	2023-04-10 18:00:00 UTC	2023-04-10 19:00:00 UTC	1	1

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yjdoc2·Apr 10, 2023

Hey, Sorry about that! Maybe we should have dialed the reactive stuff down a bit! On a side note, if you'd prefer a no-gui setup, this also as a commandline based emulator github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator/ . (Not that this is any excuse for the we ui)

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yjdoc2·Apr 10, 2023

Hey, I am one of the creators of this emulator! Thanks nhatcher for posting this, glad to see you found this interesting. A bit of background on this is : we made this when we were students ourselves, learning about 8086, and couldn't find a decent emulator to do some of our lab work (or at least couldn't find a decent one with nice linux support). We decided to write this primarily for ourselves, and for anyone who want to have an introduction to writing assembly in a friendly environment. This has mistakes, some decisions that seemed good at that time, but are quite bad in hind-site, and you are welcome to open issues on the respective github repos (github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator for the syntax and emulator stuff, github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator-web for the web ui). We are now busy with other stuff, so the development is not as active

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as when we initially made this ; however, we try to update and add features, try to do bug fixes, and welcome contributors as much as we can. Hope this project makes some newcomer interested in amazing domain of assembly, low level systems and system programming!

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nhatcher·Apr 10, 2023

Ooops, yeah it probably needs some work. I _think_ it is the work of a student and I found it surprisingly beautiful and well done. The actual grammar (which is how I stumbled upon this project) is here: https://github.com/YJDoc2/8086-Emulator/blob/master/src/lib/...

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