Hi, I've been trying to build some of the old dungeon (zork) source files
I've manage to find...
I've bee using SIMH, and it's TS-11 v4 distro
I found some Fortran stuff here: http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/
When I run SIMH, this is what I get for "show cpu"
CPU, 11/73, NOCIS, idle disabled, autoconfiguration enabled, 256KB
This is my ini file:
set cpu 256k
att rk0 rtv4_rk.dsk
att rk1 dungeon1.dsk
att rk2 dungeon2.dsk
att rk3 asc.dsk
I've figured out how to install the compiler from some PDF's and the test
program will build. However when attempting to link dungeon I'm getting
this error:
------8<------8<------8<------8<
?LINK-W-Undefined globals:
CVTTIM
GTIM
$OVRH
------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
I cut out the references for CVTTIM & GTIM from the source, but the OVRH is
not found... People tell me it's an overlay manager but I cannot find any
mention of this thing anywhere as far as where to find it, build it link
with it or anything.....
I can provide more detail if needed but I'd really appreciate any pointers
on this...
TIA
Jason.
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:57:31 +0200, "Ed Groenenberg" <quapla at xs4all.nl>
wrote:
> Hi,
>|
> Has anybody heard of a 6502 assembler running under RSX-11M?
> And is there any documentation for it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
When I was doing my thesis, I used an 8085 assembler under RSX-11M that
somebody at the university had written by writing a bunch of macros for
Macro-11, one macro for each 8085 mnemonic. We used the task builder as
a linker, and then a utility, again written by some student, to convert
the image to Intel Hex. I think the PROM burner was controlled by the
PDP as well. I'm sure you could do the same for the 6502.
/Jonas
Hi,
Has anybody heard of a 6502 assembler running under RSX-11M?
And is there any documentation for it?
Thanks,
Ed
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Hello everyone,
My oldest machine is a Goldstar Gold Note 386SX 20 MHz with 2 MB of RAM. I'd
like to do many things with it, but no matter what I try to do, at some
point the screen starts going dark and then bright and then dark
again...varying in brightness until you can't focus on what you are doing
anymore. It's a grayscale LCD. Apparently no dead pixels at all. I've been
told by someone who fixes motherboards and other things for a living that
it's not the screen but something else. However, the man claims he has no
time to look into the machine and find the problem.
If anyone has any idea of what could be wrong, wether it is possible to fix
it and hopefully how, I'm all ears. I will even send it to whoever can fix
it and pay for the repairs, like I intended to do with this local gentleman.
I'm very curious to at least hear what's wrong.
I have the following equpment free for pick up. All or nothing deal.
Wrentham, MA. It's going to the scrapper next Wednesday.
two VAX 4000-100
two AlphaServer 400 4/233 complete and working when I shut them down a
few years ago
two VT520
one VR160
MicroVAX 3100
BA42A storage expansion
BA360 with 4 drives
MicroVAX I, I believe complete, I never powered it up
MicroVAX II box/power supply/backplane only, no drives or boards
Joe Heck
Zane H. Healy & Ethan Dicks wrote:
Snip
...
>> This reminds me that I still need to take some time to image my
>> MicroVMS distro floppies. I'm sure they aren't unique, but I'm not
>> sure where I'd get uVMS from the 'net (and ISTR, there are no versions
>> of full VMS that fit on an RD51 or RD52).
> This is something I for one would like to see preserved. I have a
> VAXstation II/RC that ran MicroVMS.
To clarify about VMS / MicroVMS versions I've looked into some VMS V4.x tapes and found out the following:
Version Type Date written MicroVAX support
V4.0 Full 23-SEP-1984 NO
V4.1 Update <missing> ??
V4.2 Full 12-JUL-1985 NO
V4.3 Update 9-JAN-1986 VMS043.A-COMMON FILES / VMS043.B-VMS ONLY / Saveset VMS043.C-UVMS ONLY
V4.4 Full 30-MAR-1986 YES (integral part of all Savesets)
V4.5 Update 26-SEP-1986 same as with V4.3 (individual Savesets)
V4.6 Full 15-JUN-1987 same as with V4.4 (integral part of all Savesets)
V4.7 Update 29-OCT-1987 same as with V4.3 (individual Savesets)
That seems to me a rather good proof that MicroVMS versions are (at least from V4.3 onwards) functionally equal
(to the extend possible on MicroVAXen) to the corresponding VMS versions.
Distribution tapes were identical, whereas the RX50 floppy sets most probably were not (as to save space/floppies).
I'm still looking for the following versions:
- MicroVMS V1.0 ( = MicroVMS V4.0 ???)
- MicroVMS V4.0
- MicroVMS V4.1
- MicroVMS V4.2
- VMS V4.1
- VMS V4.2 MUP (Mandatory Update)
- VMS 4.3A
- VMS 4.5A
- VMS 4.5B
- VMS 4.5C
- VMS 4.6A
- VMS 4.6B
- VMS 4.6C
- VMS 4.7A
Can anybody help ???
All other versions are available to anyone who wants them.
Regards
Ulli
P.S.
My MicroVAX I runs MicroVMS V4.4,
my two MicroVAX IIs run a VMS V4.6 LAVC together with two VAXstations 2000
Who else has got MicroVAX Is or at least parts to build one???
I'm currently scanning EK-KD32A-OM-002 MicroVAX I Owner's Manual for me & bitsavers.org.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>> On that box in particular, I should really get around to imaging the
>> drive - it has hardware diagnostics already set-up to test Qbus
>> COMBOARDs (the diagnostics themselves are backed up 3 ways, but not in
>> a working environment).
>
> Well... ?Get to work! ?:-)
What? Do you have a Qbus COMBOARD? ;-)
I think one list member ever has piped up that they found a COMBOARD
in a rescued system - we sold a few thousand Unibus "COMBOARD I"
(HASP/3780) boards over 12 years or so, a much smaller number of
Unibus "COMBOARD II" (SNA), and an even smaller number of Qbus
COMBOARDs (HASP/3780/SNA), and by comparison, a microscopic number of
VAXBI COMBOARDs (HASP/3780).
If anyone still cared about setting up sync links between VAXen and
IBMs, I'd have more motivation to work on these sorts of projects, but
since I never have gotten the DWBUA working on my 8200 after it moved
to my house, I don't really have a ready-to-use environment for
testing our old Unibus products (of which I still have a couple tubs).
Qbus is easy, as is VAXBI.
It was a great product for the 1980s, but I don't really hear any buzz
about sync serial comms anymore.
-ethan
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, H?lscher
<hoelscher-kirchbrak at freenet.de> wrote:
> To clarify about VMS / MicroVMS versions...
>
> That seems to me a rather good proof that MicroVMS versions are (at least from V4.3 onwards) functionally equal
> (to the extend possible on MicroVAXen) to the corresponding VMS versions.
That sounds right from what I remember. After that point, it became a
memory/disk space issue, not an architectural issue. I don't recall
when uVAX-I support was dropped, but I don't think VMS 6.0 is
supported on an RD54 (though it _can_ be mostly wedged in there).
> I'm still looking for the following versions:
>
> - MicroVMS V1.0 ( = MicroVMS V4.0 ???)
I _think_ that might be the case.
> - MicroVMS V4.0
> - MicroVMS V4.1
> - MicroVMS V4.2
>
> - VMS V4.1
> - VMS V4.2 MUP (Mandatory Update)
> - VMS 4.3A
> - VMS 4.5A
> - VMS 4.5B
> - VMS 4.5C
> - VMS 4.6A
> - VMS 4.6B
> - VMS 4.6C
> - VMS 4.7A
>
> Can anybody help ???
I have many of the earlier ones of those, on original media, though I
can't guarantee what will read and verify from 20-year-old media. I
will certainly give it an attempt.
We had an 11/750 on software support from their initial release in
1983 through 1993, MicroVAXen from their release in 1984 through 1993,
and an 11/730 that probably used the same media as the 11/750, IIRC.
Some of our MicroVAX stuff was on RX50; some on TK50. We ran (u)VMS
and Ultrix. I was able to save about 80%-90% of the distro media when
the company closed (some of the earlier stuff may have been recycled
since TU58s and RX50s were considered "expensive" and "why would we
ever want that old stuff anyway). I do have a pile of DEC distro
floppies for the Pro series that turned into backup and transfer
floppies, so are decorative, but not functional now. :-/
Since I recently went through the exercise of creating a Compaq
utilities disk for my Portable II, I'm in better shape to archive
RX50s. I'll have to dig out my TSZ07 to image install tapes.
I will not get to any of this before Thanksgiving, so please don't
ask, but feel free to rattle my cage (offlist, please) if it's January
and I haven't made a peep.
If you need it sooner, I can't imagine that I'm the only person in the
world who still has 15-25-year-old backup media - someone must have
much of this stuff spun up somewhere (though I can undertstand not
wanting to make it available all the time to random passers-by).
-ethan
