Monotaur

Abandonment

Monotaur is a stack-based virtual machine that simulates a CPU. This project is now abandoned. Feel free to study the code here! Monotaur should be able to function fully.

Introduction

Monotaur implements simple math operations, storage operations, stack operations, system calls, import operations. The VM even has ways to idenitfy proper .cw files, which is it's input files. It's a simple project I made to better understand how programming languages work, how CPUs work, and how VMs work. The stack in Monotaur is called the plate. The plate has a size of 128.

Instructions

HALT

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Inherits the 0x00 value. Halts the current program it is executing. Here's its context.

BE EF BA BE 01 00

The program above just validates the program and exits.

PLOP

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Inherits the 0x01 value. Adds a Integer to plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 01 00

This example adds 1 to plate.

PLUMMET

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Inherits the 0x02 value. Adds a Float to plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 02 00

This example adds 0.1 to plate.

SCALE

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Inherits the 0x03 value. Adds a String to plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 03 00

This example adds Hello World! to plate.

TAKE

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Inherits the 0x04 value. Takes a value from plate You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 01 04 00

This example adds 1 to plate, then removes it.

DEVOUR

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Inherits the 0x05 value. Erases the entire plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 01 06 01 03 00

This example adds 1 to plate, then another 1 before erasing both.

INC

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Inherits the 0x06 value. Adds one to Integer and Float before is it added to plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 06 06 06 06 00

This example just increments to 5 without adding to plate.

DNC

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Inherits the 0x07 value. Subtracts one from Integer and Float. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 06 07 07

This example adds to 2 before subtracting 2.

ISTORE

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Inherits the 0x08 value. Takes the top of the plate as an Integer ands stores it to whatever is in current increment. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 01 06 08 00

This example adds one to plate then takes top of plate and stores it.

ILOAD

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Inherits the 0x09 value. Takes whatever is in current increment and uses it to retrieve from that key. Adds key to plate. You would use it as such:

BE EF BA BE 01 06 01 06 08 06 09 00 

This example stores then loads to plate.