The Chronos VM x32 System

To-do list

• Create a custom error type and implement pretty-print for the type, as well as using it in Result enums instead of returning Options
• Add a REPL/Debug mode, allowing for runtime debugging of the VM, and also allow for a variety of CLI options to be passed to increase verbosity to identify bugs
• Add a crashdump format and0 a simple crashdump reader, so information relating to faulty executions can be retrieved after executions and read (also, create this by default)
• Implement minifb framebuffer
• Implement crossterm for simple I/O
• Add flags to disable/enable features such as the framebuffer or I/O
• Add benchmarking flags to allow for overall program performance information

Overview

• The Chronos VM x32 System is a computer built for the Gaia Bytecode, and is built with Java as metacode.
• This project was made as a fun experiment. It is inspired by the various iterations of Excel Computers seen on Youtube, but has since transformed into a separate concept entirely.

Features

• The features of the Chronos VM x32 Architecture are:
  • full eBF/Hades/Gaia language support with 20+ different symbols/commands tailored around the development of low-level systems, including operating systems
  • Java (soon 2B Niva) as metacode (planned to allow for extensibility through .jar files)
  • full CPU chip, RAM chip, ROM chip, and ALU chip
  • User input (keyboard input, mouse movement, mouse input, etc.)
  • Graphical output (a screen)
  • Multi-threaded system
    • Render thread
    • OS thread
    • General process threads