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Show HN: Turbine – 16-bit CPU Architecture and Emulator built in C


A tale of building a CPU architecture, emulating it, and banging my head against the keyboard.

Before this, I really had no purpose in learning languages like C, Rust, C++, etc since I didn’t feel they fit into the kinds of projects which I was making. I actually started making my own programming language called mango around this time following the guide from Crafting Interpreters. The idea of a bytecode vm is that it’s structured a lot like an actual computer and code is compiled to run for that imaginary target.

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