Installation

How to install the emulator.

Windows

1. Navigate to the most recent release, and download the Windows installer
2. Unzip the downloaded file
3. Run the installer called Astro8-Windows-Installer.exe

Linux

1. Make sure you have SDL2 installed on your system
2. Navigate to the most recent release, and download the Linux version
3. Unzip the downloaded file

Building From Source

1. Clone this repository in a command line using git clone https://github.com/sam-astro/Astro8-Computer.git OR by downloading the repository as a .ZIP file and unzipping it to your location of choice
2. Make sure you have SDL2 installed on your system
3. Enter the directory Astro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build
4. Run CMake using cmake .. to generate Unix Makefile
5. Run make -j5 to generate executable
6. The executable is Astro8-Computer/Astro8-Emulator/linux-build/astro8

Now that the emulator is installed, check out how to start making and running things