Intel 8080 Disassembler and Emulator

A disassembler and emulator of the Intel 8080 8-bit microprocessor with added periphery emulation (joystick/buttons, screen and shift register) to run the arcade machine version of Space Invaders.

How to build

The emulator uses SDL2, an abstraction layer for low-level machine access on Linux, OS X, and Windows. It can be obtained from the project's website:

https://libsdl.org/

Build and install SDL2

tar zxvf SDL2-2.0.14.tar.gz
cd SDL2-2.0.14
mkdir build
cd build

../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2

make
make install

Build and install SDL image

tar zxvf SDL2_image-2.0.5.tar.gz
cd SDL2_image-2.0.5
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2 --with-sdl-prefix=/opt/sdl2

make
make install

Build and install SDL mixer

tar zxvf SDL2_mixer-2.0.4.tar.gz
cd SDL2_mixer-2.0.4
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/opt/sdl2 --with-sdl-prefix=/opt/sdl2

make
make install

Build emulator

To build the disassembler and emulator, run:

make

This will result in a program called 'emulator8080', which can then be run in the command line with the path to the rom file to emulate: