Subject: PDP-8 emulator

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 19:37:22 GMT

I'm looking for a good freeware/shareware/commercial PDP-8 emulator.  It
would be great if it runs on a PC, but I do have access to other
types of machines.
Michael Lewis    +  [email-masked]  +   Be afraid...
Sr. Programmer   +                                 +
Honeywell DAS    +       [email-masked]        +   Be VERY afraid...
ABQ, NM          +                                 +

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From: [email-masked] (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: 22 Aug 1994 21:53:07 GMT

From article <[email-masked]>,
by [email-masked]:
>   I'm looking for a good freeware/shareware/commercial PDP-8 emulator.

What peripherals do you want emulated?  How fancy a front panel do you
want (will a textual approximation do, or do you want blinking lights).

If you want blinking lights emulated on an X-terminal from a UNIX
environment, and if full support for TTY (on your console terminal
window) and high speed paper tape reader/punch (on disk files) will
satisfy you, I have what you want.  Reports are that it runs well
under Linux on an IBM PC, even, as long as you have X.  My emulator
also supports RX01 diskettes (as apecial format disk files), but
that's not fully debugged.  I'll E-mail it on demand.

There are some good emulators written for the IBM PC also,
Bill Haygood <[email-masked]> has a nice one, with good
support for more devices, I believe, but as I understand it, the
graphics aren't so flashy.  Anyway, the faq has pointers to various
stuff on FTP archives you might want to look at.

				Doug Jones
				[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Sander van Malssen)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 21:46:27 +0200 (MET DST)

> stuff on FTP archives you might want to look at.

Haygood's emulator has the added advantage that it comes with a disk
pack image full of goodies. If someone wants to build it on a UN*X
box, mail me for an improved version of the screen handling code.

(BTW, the /pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/emulators/new
dir on sunsite.unc.edu is a later version of .../emulators/haygood,
so don't bother downloading both dirs.)

Cheers,
Sander
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Sander van Malssen
[email-masked]