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1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.3.1  Gavare's eXperimental Emulator   --   GXemul 0.3.5
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4  Copyright (C) 2003-2005  Anders Gavare.  Copyright (C) 2003-2005  Anders Gavare.
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7  Overview  Overview
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10  GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. It can be  GXemul is an experimental instruction-level machine emulator. It can be used to
11  used to run binary code for (among others) MIPS-based machines. Several  run binary code for MIPS-based machines, regardless of host platform. Several
12  emulation modes are available. For some emulation modes, processors and  emulation modes are available. For some modes, processors and surrounding
13  surrounding hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified  hardware components are emulated well enough to let unmodified operating
14  operating systems (eg. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine.  systems (e.g. NetBSD) run as if they were running on a real machine.
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16    (Non-MIPS emulation modes are also under development, but so far none of those
17    modes has reached the completeness required to run unmodified operating
18    systems.)
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21  Quick start  Quick start
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24  To compile, type './configure' and then 'make'. This should work on most  To compile, type './configure' and then 'make'. This should work on most
25  Unix-like systems. If not, then please mail me a bug report.  Unix-like systems. If not, then please mail me a bug report.
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27  Please read the the documentation in the doc/ sub-directory for more  If you are impatient, and want to try out running a guest operating system
28  detailed information on how to use the emulator.  inside GXemul, please read this:  doc/guestoses.html#netbsdinstall
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30    If you want to use GXemul for experimenting with code of your own,
31    then I suggest you compile a Hello World program according to the tips
32    listed here:  doc/experiments.html#hello
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34    Please read the rest of the documentation in the doc/ sub-directory for
35    more detailed information on how to use the emulator.
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38  Feedback  Feedback
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