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Z80-based CP/M emulator, in golang. Happily runs Zork, Microsoft BASIC, Turbo Pascal, Wordstar, etc.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2024-04-23 · latest 2026-10-24

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    Show HN: A set of test-cases for CP/M emulators
    story by stevekemp · 2026-10-24 · 0 comments
  2. I wrote a CP/M emulator which you can find here: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator There's also a repository of curated/vintage programs, including Turbo Pascal here: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist I still tinker with it, now and again.…
    comment by stevekemp · 2026-10-05 · in Borland Turbo Basic
  3. …mine). For example one bug I had, which is still outstanding, relates to the Hisoft C compiler: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/issues/250 But I see that my cpm-dist repository is referenced in the download script so that made me happy!…
    comment by stevekemp · 2026-02-27 · in Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code
  4. …I wrote a console-based emulator, and a simple CP/M text-adventure game somewhat recently https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ At some point I should rework my examples/samples to become a decent test-suite for CP/M emulators. There are so…
    comment by stevekemp · 2025-12-29 · in Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB
  5. I wrote a summary of my issue on a github comment, and I guess I will try again https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/issues/234#issuecomment-291... But I'm not optimistic; all previous attempts at "identify the bug", "fix the bug", "highlight…
    comment by stevekemp · 2025-05-29 · in Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust
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    Show HN: A simple Golang CP/M emulator that can run Zork
    story by stevekemp · 2025-05-03 · 0 comments
  7. …emulator, and I have a lot of love for the kinda vintage software out there that still runs on it. https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ Over the past few days I've seen posts on hacker news discussion 6502 assembly, people coming to the…
    comment by stevekemp · 2025-04-16 · in The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility
  8. …are a lot of CP/M emulators out there. I hacked up a simple emulator in golang for mac/linux/bsd - https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ and there's a link to a set of binaries for turbo pascal, and instructions for using it available here:…
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-09-01 · in Rediscovering Turbo Pascal
  9. I put together a simple CP/M emulator here: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ Alongside that there is a collection of CP/M binaries, including the Aztec C compiler: https://github.com/skx/cpm-dist/ So you can easily have a stab at…
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-08-18 · in Getting back into C programming for CP/M
  10. Earlier this year I setup a CP/M emulator, in golang: https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/ It got some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400635 I think the project is "done" for the moment, in the sense that it seems to…
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-08-05 · in 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution
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    Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulator
    story by stevekemp · 2024-05-18 · 15 comments
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    Show HN: A simple Golang CP/M emulator that can run Zork
    story by stevekemp · 2024-04-28 · 0 comments
  13. …TLDR; writing a CP/M emulator in golang, and getting more and more software running on it - https://github.com/skx/cpmulator
    comment by stevekemp · 2024-04-23 · in Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?