This program in a low level emulator dedicated to the study and presentation of the historical microcomputer Micral N.
The emulator currently emulates some cards of the Micral N. As the emulator is a way to conduct research on the inner working of the computer, some parts are « guesses » on how signals are constructed and propagated.
When documentation is found and analysis of hardware is done, the emulation is fixed.
There are two ways of launching the emulator. One is a command line tool which is aimed at running a preconfigured Micral N. Another is a GUI tool to graphically play around and discover how the computer works.
The emulator consists of several libraries with a dedicated objective to allow other executables to be built. For example, it could serve on a hardware panel reconstruction, or a graphical one, without all the debug tools. Even pushing it to a guided tour.
A small disassembler with support for Micral N dedicated instructions is also available.
At the moment, configuration if by changing the source only. In the main.cpp file,
the enum passed to the Simulator constructor creates a particular scenario. By changing
the value, the configuration changes.
Future work needs to be done for data driven configuration.