Gati A., Navi B., Caitlin C., Zoe M.
SoftSysGarbageEaters is a LC-3 virtual machine that can run .obj files on Linux/Unix systems. Note that the virtual machine is not compatible with Windows due to operating system constraints.
Little Computer 3 (LC-3) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC), meaning its architecture uses a small number of optimized instructions to complete tasks rather than a larger set of specialized instructions as is the standard for modern personal computers.
LC-3 uses a simplified instruction set in order to introduce computer architecture concepts to students. The LC-3 instruction set consists of only 15 instructions and uses a simplified memory system of 10 registers. It is not practical for industrial use, but it is a great way to learn introductory computer architecture concepts.
To set up the virtual machine, you should do the following:
- Clone the repository by running
git clone[https://github.com/caitlincoffey/SoftSysGarbageEaters.git](https://github.com/caitlincoffey/SoftSysGarbageEaters.git)in the terminal - Cd into
SoftSysGarbageEaters - Run
maketo compile the executable file for the virtual machine - Run
./GarbageEater <filename.obj> to run a game on the virtual machine.
Our LC-3 virtual machine runs .obj files on Linux/Unix platforms. We have some example files, programs/2048.obj and programs/rogue.obj if you would like to run these.
Credit to Justin Meiners and Ryan Pendleton for sharing their LC-3 assembly implementations of rogue.obj and 2048.obj.
Run unit tests with make test && ./test.
To run the LC-3 virtual machine, you will need the following:
gcc, the GNU Compilergit, a free and open source distributed version control system