Welcome to VARCem, the Virtual Archaeological Computer EMulator.
VARCem8 is a software application which emulates a selection of 8-bit microprocessors, auxiliary I/O devices and, of course, a (small) number of systems they were used in.
The program tries to be cycle-exact, meaning the guest software (the software being run inside the emulated system) will run as fast (or, depending on how you see that..) as slow as it did "back then". If you selected, say, a 65C02 running at 2MHz, that is what the software will see, and how fast it will be run.
VARCem8 is a subproject of the larger VARCem Systems Emulator project. It was felt that the 8-bit "world" was SO much different from the "PC world", a separate application was desired.
VARCem as a whole is released under the BSD 3-Clause Open Software License, which is compatible with the GPL (GNU Public License) version 2 or later that is used by many of the modules imported from other emulator projects. Major parts of the VARCem8 project are released under the MIT license.
Author credits and specific copyrights can be found in each of the source files.
Obviously, where license terms of individual modules deviate from the general project license terms, the terms of such an individual module prevail.
Information, downloads, additional modules and such can be found on our Website. Live support and general help can also be found on our Discord server. We no longer use the IRC network.
Additionally, documentation can be found (once it is written..) on the Wiki, and general discussions and support can be found at the Forum where you can find announcements, leave bug reports, and so on.
"This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
It's free, it comes with all the sources, but it does not come with any warranty whatsoever. You probably should not use this software to run a business-critical piece of (old) software at work, for example.
If there is a problem with the software, please open up a GIT issue so we can work on it, and/or talk to us on the IRC channel. We cannot promise a fix, but will try the best we can !
Last Updated: 2023/04/11