https://github.com/rami-sabbagh/asm-19

ASM-19 is a fantasy assembly language which has been created during the lockdown days of the COVID-19 virus.
https://github.com/rami-sabbagh/asm-19

16-bit assembler assembly emulator fantasy isa language machine virtual-machine

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ASM-19 is a fantasy assembly language which has been created during the lockdown days of the COVID-19 virus.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rami-sabbagh/asm-19
• Owner: Rami-Sabbagh
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-03-21T22:02:36.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-02T20:17:49.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-03T09:21:32.190Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: 16-bit, assembler, assembly, emulator, fantasy, isa, language, machine, virtual-machine
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• Size: 76.2 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# ASM-19

ASM-19 is a "fantasy" instruction set architecture, which is never made to be built into real hardware.

## Implementations

- [implementation-01](https://github.com/Rami-Sabbagh/ASM-19/tree/implementation-01)

- [implementation-02](https://github.com/Rami-Sabbagh/ASM-19/tree/implementation-02)

## Motivation

It was made as a challenge project during the lockdown days of the COVID-19 virus inorder to pass time.

## Objectives

- Create a set of instructions, which must be [turing complete / computationally universal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness), so it can "simulate any Turing machine" like our personal computers.

- Create a text format for representing a program.

- Define the architecture of a virtual processor which:

  - Runs the ASM-19 instructions.

  - Stores the program instructions using a binary format in memory.

- Create an assembler which assembles programs from the text format into the binary format, as memory images for the virtual processor.

- Create an emulator of the virtual processor that can load and run the memory images.

## Gained values

- Learnt much deeper low-level knowledge on how a real machine is built.

- Learnt how assemblers and emulators can be made.

- Respect the huge architectural work done on computers.