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A visual ARM emulator

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127 pointssohkamyung13 comments

Very cool project, and I greatly appreciate the Linux support!

However since it's just a packaged Java project with an embedded JVM, would be nice if they could provide the Jar as a stand-alone download for those of us not running Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu (only a .deb provided).

Or, at least I cannot seem to find a Jar download, or even links to the sources for me to compile on my own.

Have you tried extracting the .deb?

Download the mac version. It's a zip file. Look in Contents/MacOS. You'll find the jar there.

Is this free software? I wanted to build from source buy it seems like they only distribute binaries?

This is my question too. Plus the development seems is stuck. The latest release is from 2015.

From the home and about page it seems like this was developed in the context of teaching a course at the Imperial College London. I wouldn't be surprised if there was just so much bureaucracy involved in getting this open source that the author deemed it not really worth it.

I remember building a very similar ARM emulator in my undergrad Microprocessor Architecture class (a great project and one that taught me as much about software architecture as microprocessors). Does anybody know if this is a commonly assigned undergraduate project? If so, there should be lots of these emulators floating around.

It's free, but I would really like to see the source of this... I'll give it a shot anyway...

Alright, I downloaded this, now what? How can I learn more about ARM?

Sadly it seems like a free but not open source software.

If it's not open source, it can't be Free Software, it's just freeware.

Let’s not pretend that the word “free” always means “open source” when it comes to software. If I receive a free car, I don’t expect any plans of how it’s made either.

They said "free", not "Free". As in gratis, but not libre.

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