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The Astro-8 is a 16-bit computer design. It has a (almost) workingLogisim Evolution circuit, along with an emulator on Windows, Mac, and Linux, for running code at full speed. There is an assembly language, along with a higher level language called Armstrong, plus more which are actively being built by the community.

There are some demos for the Astro-8, such as the pong game and a typing program. You can locate those in the folder/example_armstrong_programs/.

Go here for the documentation and more previews for some other demos

The two most supported ways to program for the computer is using theassembly language orArmstrong.

1. Navigate tothe most recent release, and download theWindows version
2. Unzip the downloaded file

1. Make sure you haveSDL2 installed on your system

   For debian based operating systems, you can do this with:

sudo apt-get install -y libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0

2. Navigate tothe most recent release, and download theLinux version
3. Unzip the downloaded file

1. Clone this repository in a command line usinggit clone https://github.com/sam-astro/Astro8-Computer.git OR by downloading the repository as a .ZIP file and unzipping it to your location of choice
2. Make sure you haveSDL2 installed on your system
3. Enter the directoryAstro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build
4. Run CMake usingcmake .. to generate Unix Makefile
5. Runmake -j5 to generate executable
6. The executable isAstro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build/Astro8-Emulator

These projects are not always compatable with the main branch of the official Astro8-Computer repository. Please read the instructions in their project's repo before using.

• https://github.com/LucasJG1994/Astro8-VM - Astro8-VM BY@LucasJG1994
• https://github.com/GerardSmit/Astro8 - Astro8 C# and Web emulator BY@GerardSmit
• https://github.com/GerardSmit/Astro8 - Yabal, a high-level C-like language BY@GerardSmit