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Author:  Druzyek [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:05 am ]
Post subject:  6309 simulator?

Is there a 6309 simulator that lets you single step and see he registers? There are emulators for the CoCo3 that uses a 6309 but they don't really seem geared to writing your own assembly and testing it. Any suggestions?

Author:  Cray Ze [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 6:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 6309 simulator?

You've probably already spotted it, but if not:
There is source code for "Lex's 6309 simulator" listed on the following page.
http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/

Direct file link:
http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/unix/6309sim.tar.gz

It looks like it'll need a bit of work to get it working on little endian architectures,
but might be better than starting from scratch if that turns out to be the only other option.

Author:  robfinch [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 6:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 6309 simulator?

The 6309 is an expanded version (superset) of the 6809. A number of simulators and emulators for the 6809 exist.
I found a few webpages by addressing "6809 emulator simulator".
It doesn't look like there's a lot in the way of 6309 simulators. It may be necessary to modify a 6809 version.

If you have access to a 6309 core (VHDL / Verilog FPGA for instance) you could run the core in a test bench in a (generic) logic simulator. That would provide the ultimate control for stepping through software, but it's a slow going process. I've done initial software debugging for a number of cores that way before the software gets too complex.

I was just having a look at the rtf6809 today but unfortunately I didn't get as far as writing a simulator for it yet.
6809's one of my favorite processors, but not the 6309 so much.

Author:  Druzyek [ Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: 6309 simulator?

Thanks for the suggestions. I thought about trying to write my own simulator, but from the datasheets it looks a lot more complicated than something like a 6502. I'm also not keen on rewriting someone else's simulator hoping to get it right. The 6809 assembler/simulator on ASM80.com works ok (it hangs on DAA, for example, and the 6502 emulation is broken.)

In the end I found an assembler called lwtools and got it to assemble a 32k raw binary file. I can overwrite the coco3 ROM and do a hard reset in the MAME emulator to get it to reload the file. It works well enough to see all the registers and single step.

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