MARS Assembler
MARS is a lightweight interactive development environment (IDE) for programming in MIPS assembly language, intended for educational-level use with Patterson and Hennessy’s Computer Organization and Design.
MARS has been jointly developed by Pete Sanderson (programming) and Ken Vollmar (details and paperwork).
Last update
Aug. 2014
Download
You can download the latest version at the official website.
Purpose of this repo
This repo is a mirror of the source code of MARS Assembler. Though the source code is into the “MARS.jar” file at the download page, this is a mirror for people who wants to have the source code forked or that stuff.
I’m not going to accept any pull request. This source code is not maintained by me but the original developers. If you want to contribute to the project, you should talk with them going here.
Documentation (included in the repo)
- Go to the documentation.
- In order to run or compile MARS v4.XX, MARS requires Java J2SE 1.5 (or later) SDK installed on your computer.
How to run MARS
- Option A: Desktop. Save the jar file on the desktop. Run MARS by double-clicking the icon.
- Option B: DOS shell using jar file. Save the jar file in some folder. Open a DOS shell in that folder. Rename the jar file to “Mars.jar” for convenience. Run MARS with the DOS command java -jar Mars.jar
- Option C: DOS shell using Java classes. Save the jar file in some folder. Open a DOS shell in that folder. Rename the jar file to “Mars.jar” for convenience. Extract MARS files with the DOS command jar -xf Mars.jar Run MARS with the DOS command java Mars
How to compile
- Windows: execute “CreateMarsJar.bat” file to generate an executable.
- GNU/Linux and Mac: execute the “CreateMarsJar.sh” to generate an executable. If you can’t due of permissions, do a “chmod +x CreateMarsJar.sh” (Thanks to @aesptux to be the tester in Mac).
License
MIT. Chech the LICENSE file. All the credits go to the original developers.