EMARS

MARS is a lightweight interactive development environment (IDE) for programming in MIPS assembly language, intended for educational-level use with Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organization and Design.

MARS has been jointly developed by Pete Sanderson (programming) and Ken Vollmar (details and paperwork).

Download

You can download the latest version at the official website.

Purpose of this repo

This repo is a mirror of the source code of MARS Assembler. Thought the source code is into the "MARS.jar" file at the download page, this is a mirror for people who wants to have the source code forked or that stuff.

Documentation (included in the repo)

Go to the documentation.
In order to run or compile MARS v4.XX, MARS requires Java J2SE 1.5 (or later) SDK installed on your computer.

How to run MARS

Option A: Desktop. Save the jar file on the desktop. Run MARS by double-clicking the icon.
Option B: DOS shell using jar file. Save the jar file in some folder. Open a DOS shell in that folder. Rename the jar file to "Mars.jar" for convenience. Run MARS with the DOS command java -jar Mars.jar
Option C: DOS shell using Java classes. Save the jar file in some folder. Open a DOS shell in that folder. Rename the jar file to "Mars.jar" for convenience. Extract MARS files with the DOS command jar -xf Mars.jar Run MARS with the DOS command java Mars

How to compile

Windows: execute "CreateMarsJar.bat" file to generate an executable. You have to have

To-Do

".sh" file to create an executable.

License

MIT. Chech the LICENSE file. All the credits go to the original developers.