The Astro-8 is a 16-bit computer design. It has a (almost) working Logisim Evolution circuit, along with an emulator on Windows, Mac, and Linux, for running code at full speed. There is an assembly language, along with a higher level language called Armstrong, plus more which are actively being built by the community.
I created a video about the creation of this and how it works, which you can view here:
Demos
There are some demos for the Astro-8, such as the pong game and a typing program. You can locate those in the folder /example_armstrong_programs/.
Go here for the documentation and more previews for some other demos
Programming
The two most supported ways to program for the computer is using the assembly language or Armstrong.
Documentation
Installation
Windows
- Navigate to the most recent release, and download the Windows version
- Unzip the downloaded file
Linux
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Make sure you have SDL2 installed on your system
For debian based operating systems, you can do this with:
sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0
- Navigate to the most recent release, and download the Linux version
- Unzip the downloaded file
From Source
- Clone this repository in a command line using
git clone https://github.com/sam-astro/Astro8-Computer.gitOR by downloading the repository as a .ZIP file and unzipping it to your location of choice - Make sure you have SDL2 installed on your system
- Enter the directory
Astro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build - Run CMake using
cmake ..to generate Unix Makefile - Run
make -j5to generate executable - The executable is
Astro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build/Astro8-Emulator
Other projects related to the Astro-8:
These projects are not always compatable with the main branch of the official Astro8-Computer repository. Please read the instructions in their project's repo before using.
- https://github.com/LucasJG1994/Astro8-VM - Astro8-VM BY @LucasJG1994
- https://github.com/GerardSmit/Astro8 - Astro8 C# and Web emulator BY @GerardSmit
- https://github.com/GerardSmit/Astro8 - Yabal, a high-level C-like language BY @GerardSmit