ATC-8 (Advanced Toy 8-bit Computer) itself is a virtual machine designed to mimic a non-existing video game console. Unlike PICO-8, ATC-8 has higher specs and it's designed as an video game console emulator. That means that an user can create a game for it using only available assembly language.

All the projects are written in C# using .NET Core 2.0. Also GUI module uses MonoGame framework.

Please note: I do not understand assembly languages perfectly, moreover I have little knowledge about them, so I'm writting ATC-8's CPU assembly language, specification and documentation only using my experience in some OOP languages like C#, scripting languages like Lua and functional languages like Scala or F#. Also into that experience bag goes ASM lessons from my university.

Based on this, this repo is mostly for educational purposes

ATC-8 has the following project structure:

• ATC-8.Common - library with all basic functions shared between all modules
• ATC-8.Cpu - CPU module implementation
• ATC-8.Ram - RAM module implementation
• ATC-8.InternalMemory - Internal memory module implementation
• ATC-8.Display - Display, Colors, Sprites and Map modules implementation
• ATC-8.Cartridge - Cartridge module implementation
• ATC-8.Sound - Sound module implementation (sound synthesis & output)
• ATC-8.Input - Input module implementation (gamepad input)
• ATC-8.Emulator - Emulator, takes all the modules and composes an usable interface between them (bus)
• ATC-8.Gui - Graphical user interface for the emulator (VM)
• ATC-8.Game - Puzzle game based on the ATC-8

In order to build ATC-8 you need to .NET Core 2.0 or higher to be installed. Simply open the sln file using Visual Studio and you're ready to go.

ATC-8.Emulator uses MonoGame, MonoGame.Extended and lunge frameworks.

You can get a better perspective of the ATC-8 looking at the docs which are placed in the Docs directory.