collapseos/emul/z80/README.md

emul

This folder contains a couple of tools running under the libz80 emulator.

Requirements

You need ncurses to build the forth executable. In debian-based distros, it's libncurses5-dev.

Build

Run make and it builds the forth interpreter.

Usage

The ./forth executable here works like the one in /cvm, except that it runs under an emulated z80 machine instead of running natively. Refer to /cvm/README.md for details.

Not real hardware

./forth doesn't try to emulate real hardware because the goal here is to facilitate "high level" development.

These apps run on imaginary hardware and use many cheats to simplify I/Os.

For real hardware emulation (which helps developing drivers), see subfolders.