

If you are reading this, you have unzipped ARC_Simulator.zip onto your
hard drive, and are reading README-Vickery, using a text editor of some
sort, such as notepad.

To use the assembler and simulator, you have to have Java installed on
your PC.  Start a command prompt window, and change to the directory
where you unzipped these files.  The command to start the simulator is:

  java -cp ARCToolsv1.2.5.jar ARCTools.ARCSim

Since the last part is the name of a Java class, be sure to capitalize
it exactly as given.

The simulator will start up.  Find the "Edit" button in the middle of
the window, and use it to go to the editor.  From the editor you can
either open an existing .asm file from the examples directory, or type
in your own file.  When you finish typing, click the Assemble button.
When the code assembles without errors, click the "Asm->Sim" button to
load the program into the simulator's memory.  In the simulator window,
you can use the Step button to step through the program one instruction
at a time, observing the effect each instruction has on the registers.

Dr. Vickery

