Implement a CPU emulator (a virtual machine) in JavaScript

Implement a CPU emulator using interpretation (a basic virtual machine) in JavaScript.

This project is great for any computer science student interested to find out more about how CPUs are working, about machine code and assembly language.

This video is also recommended to people interested to build emulators for retro machines or retro arcades. Of course this is just a very first step...

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[jarwx-bin]

A rare gem on youtube, teaching arhitecture while building it is really amazing! Keep up the good work!

[sepia]

Great work ! I want to do something similar but much simpler such as tutorials for programming in python, java but in romanian :)

[iAndwww]

That's truly amazing. Thanks for the video!

[CodingAdventures]

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Happy Coding!

[TheDogn]

1:01:43 It was a bumpy ride but if this was your intended outcome I must say I believe you achieved it. After following along I was able to execute your Fibonacci program on the first try. Thank you for everything sir!

[Julien-hdjm]

Thank you for your very clear video. My son wants to study CPU architecture, it will help him to understand.
Take care
Julien

[ecological]

So glad to see you again, was waiting for it!!