A simple 16-bit assembler + virtual-machine interpreter for a custom bytecode.
Basically, this project provides an assembler for a custom assembly language that yields custom binary output.
The binary output can be run with the provided virtual-machine.
The assembly syntax is very similar to the x86 (and specifically 8086) intel syntax, but has a few deviations such as not using commas (because why not).
The binary output currently isn't that optimized for speed or size, but is a bit more readable than 8086 assembler binary output.
Also, as opposed to 8086, the virtual machine does not use segments, but just plain 16-bit addresses.
First of all for fun, but also for learning about assemblers, bytecodes, executables etc...
This isn't really meant to be used by other people and is pretty much just for learning.
The program was tested only on my Ubuntu 20.04 machine, but would probably work on other *nix machines.
To build on *nix machines, run make all.
The executable will be set in the build/ directory.
To assemble a file, run build/fy -c <path-to-file> <path-to-new-executable>.
To run a generated executable, run build/fy -r <path-to-executable>.
When thinking about a name for the project, I wanted to incorporate the word "bytecode" with something else. That made me think of words that rhyme with "byte" and I immediately thought of "fight", then I just glued the words together without aiming for any meaning.