MOS-Hardware

This crate contains hardware register tables and support functions for 8-bit retro computers like the Commodore 64, MEGA65 and others. Please check the examples/ directory to see how Rust can be used generate demo effects.

Aims

• Excellent support for Rust programming on CBM (inspired) 8-bit computers
• Labelled registers for expressive hardware programming
• Intuitive bitflags with type checks where possible
• Minimum resource impact

Getting started

The project requires rust-mos and is setup to build for C64 by default. A docker image of rust-mos is available if you do not fancy compiling LLVM.

Examples

Read and write to labelled hardware registers:

~~~ rust use mos_hardware::{c64,vic2};

let oldbordercolor = (c64::VIC).border_color.read(); (c64::VIC).bordercolor.write(c64::LIGHTRED);

(*c64::SID).potentiometer_x.write(3); // error: read-only register ~~~

Use bitflags to control hardware behaviour, e.g. where the VIC-II chip accesses screen memory and character sets:

~~~ rust let bank = vic2::ScreenBank::AT2C00.bits() | vic2::CharsetBank::AT2000.bits(); (*c64::VIC).screenandcharset_bank.write(bank); ~~~

Convenience functions to perform hardware-specific tasks, e.g. generate random numbers using noise from the C64's SID chip:

~~~ rust (*c64::SID).startrandomgenerator(); let random_number : u8 = rand8!(c64::SID); ~~~

Status

The hardware registers are currently incomplete and the library may be subject to significant changes.

• [x] sid
• [x] vic2 (partially)
• [x] cia (partially)
• [x] c64 (particlly)
• [x] Plasma-effect example
• [ ] mega65 (scaffold only)