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# KSim65 - Kotlin/JVM 6502/65C02 microprocessor simulator
*Written by Irmen de Jong (irmen@razorvine.net)*
*Software license: MIT, see file LICENSE*
![6502](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/KL_MOS_6502.jpg/320px-KL_MOS_6502.jpg)
This is a Kotlin/JVM library that simulates the 8-bit 6502 and 65C02 microprocessors,
which became very popular in the the early 1980's.
Properties of this simulator:
- Written in Kotlin. It is low-level code, but hopefully still readable :-)
- Designed to simulate various hardware components (bus, cpu, memory, i/o controllers)
- IRQ and NMI simulation
- Aims to simulate correct instruction cycle timing, but is not 100% cycle exact for simplicity
- Aims to implements all 6502 and 65c02 instructions, including the 'illegal' 6502 instructions (not yet done)
- correct BCD mode for adc/sbc instructions on both cpu types
- passes several extensive unit test suites that verify instruction and cpu flags behavior
- simple debugging machine monitor, which basic disassembler and assembler functions
- provide a few virtual example machines, one of which is a Commodore-64
## Documentation
Still to be written. For now, use the source ;-)
## Virtual machine examples
Three virtual example machines are included.
The default one starts with ``gradle run`` or run the ``ksim64vm`` command.
There's another one ``ehBasicMain`` that is configured to run the "enhanced 6502 basic" ROM:
![ehBasic](ehbasic.png)
Finally there is a fairly functional C64 emulator running the actual roms (not included,
but can be easily found elsewhere for example with the [Vice emulator](http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/).
The emulator supports character mode, bitmap mode (hires and multicolor), hardware sprites and
various timers and IRQs. It's not cycle perfect, and the video display is drawn on a per-frame basis,
so raster splits/rasterbars are impossible. But many other things work fine.
![C64 emulation](c64.png)