Intel 8080 Emulator

This project is an implementation of an Intel 8080 CPU emulator, developed in pure C, using SDL2 to render the video memory buffer in a graphical window.

Features

• Full emulation of the Intel 8080 CPU.
• Uses SDL2 to display the video and memory buffer.
• Loads and executes binaries compatible with the Intel 8080.

Dependencies

To compile and run the emulator, ensure the following tools are installed:

• GCC (version 10.2.1)
• GNU Make (version 4.3)
• SDL2 (version 2.0.14)

Installing dependencies on Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev

Installing dependencies on Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S base-devel sdl2

Installing dependencies on MacOS (Homebrew):

brew install sdl2

Compilation and execution:

make all
make run

or

make debug

Project Structure

• build/: Directory for final binary program.
• roms/: Directory for binary program files to be emulated.
• src/: Emulator source code.
• gdb_script: Debug autiomation file
• Makefile: Build automation file.