What is Marduk? =============== Marduk is an attempt to emulate the obscure Canadian NABU Personal Computer. It has quickly grown from a barely functional emulator to a fairly complete (if bare-bones) and reasonably portable program. What is NABU? ============= NABU was both a company, and the name of the computer they are best known for. In the early 1980s, they created a computer that would interface with the local cable television service to download content rather than using local storage - an idea that was radical for the time, and only in very recent years becoming common. The computer, and the service that it interfaced with, were available in a couple cities in Canada, and apparently also had a small rollout in one Japanese location, but was generally unsuccessful. How did this become a thing? ============================ In late 2022, one of these computers appeared on the YouTube channel "Adrian's Digital Basement", giving it a boost of notoriety that led to many people finding out about it for the first time, including myself. Shortly thereafter, the protocols were cracked and the computer was brought to life. Realizing that the main hardware of the NABU was all stuff I had familiarity with, I decided to try writing an emulator for it. Status ====== The CPU, VDP and PSG are emulated via third-party code, which I have imported with minimal adaptation. Also, libsdl2 is used for the front end I/O code. Gtk+ is used for dialog boxes (except on Windows where the native API is used instead). The modem emulation is reasonably complete. There is not, at date, floppy disk emulation, but it is being developed. Key bindings ============ Prior to version 1.0, some of these changes may be subject to change. F3 = Reset F6 = Toggle whether arrows and space route to the keyboard or P1 joystick. F10 = Exit Ins and Del = Yes and No PgUp and PgDn = << and >> Everything else should be obvious. ROM Files ========= The current stable version of OpenNabu is included from https://6.buric.co/nabu/opennabu/ but you can use a real Nabu firmware if you prefer. One of the following is expected: opennabu.bin (default) NabuPC-U53-90020060-RevA-2732.bin (-4) NabuPC-U53-90020060-RevB-2764.bin (-8) If you have a different firmware you can try it with the -B switch. Using a Virtual Adapter (Cable Modem Emulator) ============================================== The nabu.ca (or several others) virtual adapter defaults to listening on 127.0.0.1:5816. If you need a different address, use the -S switch (e.g., -S 192.168.0.2). If you need a different port, use the -P switch (e.g., -P 5815). License ======= Marduk is released under the terms commonly known as the "MIT" license; you will find them attached to every source file as well as in "license.txt". Basically, give credit where credit's due. It's a little more technical than that though. (Note that SDL uses a different license, but with the same goals.)