This is a small project to try Rust.
I wanted to try and build a 6502 emulator and I have heard that Rust has good performance with a focus on code safety, so I decided to give it a go.
This has been a fun project over the week-end, but now on Sunday night it's time to publish it.
If some experienced Rust developpers happen to glance at this, I'm waiting for your suggestions and critiques in the Issues tab
The emulator is somewhat feature complete and uses the simplest form of emulation (a giant switch case with one branch per instruction). It can sucessfully pass the following test suite: 6502_functional_test.ca65. The emulated processor speed is about 3 to 3.5 MHz in release mode with no debug info and about 0.8 MHz in debug mode with debug info.
To run the code launch cargo run 6502_functional_test.bin
By the way you will need cc65 to compile the assembly code (a binary is included). The following is the line to run to assemble and build the test program :
ca65 -l 6502_functional_test.lst 6502_functional_test.ca65 && ld65 6502_functional_test.o -o 6502_functional_test.bin -m 6502_functional_test.map -C example.cfg
You can view my hilarious struggle to get going in Rust by viewing the history for this project
