Made a e-4917 emulator with a short tutorial

In plain words

This project is an emulator for the E-4917 device, created in 2021. It includes a short tutorial to help users get started. The emulator is categorized as a life and fun tool and is hosted on the creator's website. It appears designed for those interested in retro computing or emulation projects who want to explore or learn about the E-4917 system.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Years ago I was introduced to Richard Buckland's course at UNSW. It featured a little microprocessor called the e-4917 . In the video professor Buckland explains how it works, and one thing has never stopped amazing me: That at the lowest level what is in a memory "cell" can be both an instructions to a program or the data used in a program. In this post I'll explain the basics workings of my fantasy CPU using the e-4917 microprocessor as a basis. We will go through how it works, and how to write some programs in it. In a future post I'll show you how to implement it using React and Typescript. To understand what we are going to build, we need to understand the basics of a CPU (Central…from maartenhus.nl

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