caio is an emulator of hardware platforms with a strong focus on old 8-bit home computers.
At the moment the following platforms are emulated:
- Commodore 64
- Sinclair ZX-80
- Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48K
The emulation of the Commodore 64 reached beta status and almost all of the tested programs work (there are still some issues with few advanced games that use specific video/timing tricks).
The Sinclair ZX-80 came with 4K ROM
and 1K RAM. Soon after its introduction several RAMPACKs appeared, these
extended the RAM up to 16K.
When the ZX-81 came out, its 8K ROM was also available for the ZX-80.
caio supports the original configuartion, the 16K RAM extension and
the 8K ROM.
The emulation of the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 48K reached beta status. Only the 48K version of this machine is emulated, it supports the cassette TAP file format and snapshot files Z80 and SNA.
At the moment the supported host platforms are Linux and macOS.
Refer to the Usage & Configuration guide.
Refer to the Compile & Install guide.
The first release is underway and it includes the following platforms:
Desired for future releases: