# sim65 Users Guide

## Stefan A. Haubenthal

sim65 is a simulator for 6502 and 65C02 CPUs. It allows to test target independed code.

## 1. Overview

## 2. Usage

- 2.1 Command line options in detail

## 3. Input and output

## 4. Copyright

## 1. Overview

sim65 is the only solution as part of the toolchain to execute code. The binary needs to be compiled with `--target sim6502` or `--target sim65c02`.

## 2. Usage

The simulator is called as follows:

> `

>             Usage: sim65 [options] file [arguments]
>             Short options:
>               -h                    Help (this text)
>               -c                    Print amount of executed CPU cycles
>               -v                    Increase verbosity
>               -V                    Print the simulator version number
>               -x <num>              Exit simulator after <num> cycles

>             Long options:
>               --help                Help (this text)
>               --cycles              Print amount of executed CPU cycles
>               --verbose             Increase verbosity
>               --version             Print the simulator version number

> `

## 2.1 Command line options in detail

Here is a description of all the command line options:

`-h, --help`

  Print the short option summary shown above.

`-c, --cycles`

  Print the number of executed CPU cycles when the program terminates. The cycles for the final "`jmp exit`" are not included in this count.

`-v, --verbose`

  Increase the simulator verbosity.

`-V, --version`

  Print the version number of the utility. When submitting a bug report, please include the operating system you're using, and the compiler version.

`-x num`

  Exit simulator after num cycles.

## 3. Input and output

The simulator will read one binary file per invocation and can log the program loading and paravirtualization calls to stderr.

Example output for the command

> `

>     sim65 --verbose --verbose samples/gunzip65

> `

> `

>     Loaded 'samples/gunzip65' at $0200-$151F
>     PVWrite ($0001, $13C9, $000F)
>     GZIP file name:PVWrite ($0001, $151F, $0001)

>     PVRead ($0000, $FFD7, $0001)
>     PVOpen ("", $0001)
>     PVRead ($0003, $1520, $6590)
>     PVClose ($0003)
>     PVWrite ($0001, $13D9, $000F)
>     Not GZIP formatPVWrite ($0001, $151F, $0001)

>     PVExit ($01)

> `

## 4. Copyright

sim65 (and all cc65 binutils) are (C) Copyright 1998-2000 Ullrich von Bassewitz. For usage of the binaries and/or sources the following conditions do apply:

This software is provided 'as-is', without any expressed or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.