How to experience CP/M-68k using Musashi Simulator?

In the last post, we saw how to experience CP/M-68k. In this tutorial we are going to experience CP/M-68k. I said that there are two ways to do so. In this tutorial we are going to use the Mushashi Simulator. You can download the files required for this tutorial here:

• CPMSIM source archive
• Musashi Simulator Source archive

Installing CPMSIM

Note
This tutorial is only for Linux. On Windows, you can use Windows Subsystem for Linux to follow this tutorial.

First you need to install some tools to compile the emulator:

• On Arch Linux based distributions, install the base-devel package group:

sudo pacman -S base-devel

• On Ubuntu/Debian based distributions, install the build-essential package:

sudo apt install build-essential

• On OpenSUSE and related distributions, install the devel_basis pattern:

sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis

• On Fedora and related distributions run:

sudo dnf install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

Note
I have only tested this tutorial on Garuda Linux that is based on Arch Linux. It should work on other distributions but you may need to install other development tools other than those given above. If you can test it on another distribution, please do so and post your findings in the comment section.

Now extract the archives above and copy the contents of the CPMSIM folder to the Musashi folder. You will be asked whether to replace some file. Choose yes.

We need to edit a file before compiling. Open the cpmsim.c file in your favourite editor and add the following lines just before the call to m68k_pulse_reset():

m68k_init();
m68k_set_cpu_type(M68K_CPU_TYPE_68000);

Save and close the file. Now we can compile the simulator. Open a terminal and navigate to the Musahi folder and run:

make

After that you can start the simulator using the following command:

./cpmsim

The simulator will start: