**Try a hosted demo of the WebAssembly version at https://ronald.int82.dev

Ronald - An Amstrad CPC Emulator

Ronald is an emulator for the Amstrad CPC written in Rust. It was written as a way to teach myself more about both emulators and Rust. It runs a couple of games that I remember fondly from my childhood. However, it has quite a few limitations and is not a feature complete as some of the other CPC emulators out there. For example:

• It only supports the CPC 464 model
• Basic reading from floppy disk is supported, but writing to disk is not
• Reading from tape is not supported at all
• Audio support is very basic, i.e. it lacks noise channels and volume envelopes
• It has only been tested on Linux (though the dependencies are cross-platform)

Running The Emulator

If you have Rust installed you can easily run the emulator from the command line using

cargo run --release

There are a few optional arguments. To see their documentation run

cargo run --release -- --help

Note: You need a valid keyboard configuration, to run the desktop version of the emulator. To get started renaming the included keyconfig.yml.example to keyconfig.yml should be sufficient.

Loading DSK Files

The F5 key opens a dialog to load DSK files. These files are images of floppy disks. Both standard and extended versions of the DSK format are supported.

Browser Version

The repo contains a WASM version as well. To run it you need Node installed and execute the following commands:

1. cd ronald-web
2. npm install
3. npm run dev

You can drag and drop DSK files onto the emulator screen to load them.