18 releases (5 breaking)
Uses old Rust 2015
0.9.0 | Jun 23, 2017 |
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0.8.2 | Jun 15, 2017 |
0.7.6 | Jun 13, 2017 |
0.6.2 | Jun 2, 2017 |
0.4.0 | May 17, 2017 |
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bakerVM
A virtual machine for building and running retro games
Introduction
The bakerVM is a virtual machine that executes bakerVM bytecode.
A builder-like compiler backend for the vm can be found in definitions/image_builder.rs
.
The executable images of the vm are encoded and decoded using MessagePack
NOTE THAT THIS SOFTWARE IS STILL UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT AND IN NO WAY STABLE OR COMPLETE.
Installation
Install sdl2
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
On macOS:
brew install sdl2
The toolchain doesn't support Windows yet
Install the toolchain
To get the newest version of the bakerVM toolchain, first you have to install Rust. The Project is currently tracking stable Rust. After you installed Rust and Cargo correctly, install the toolchain using the following command:
cargo install bakervm
If you already installed an older version you have to force the installation:
cargo install bakervm -f
After the installation, you should have the following binaries installed: bakervm
and hudson
.
hudson
is the bakervm toolkit. It is currently only able to compile *.basm
files.
hudson compile --basm path/to/main.basm
bakervm
is the VM itself. On startup it loads the stock image by default. But you can specify any bakerVM image:
bakervm path/to/my/image/game.img
Dependencies
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