Announcing OPCON for SIMH 4.0

Do you remember the realcons interface based on Henk Gooijens core-I/O board a few years ago? If so, read on! I have rewritten Henk's realcons software (and Henk made a new eeprom for me) for SIMH v4.0 and named it OPCON (OPerator Console). The original software was based on counters who's settings needed to be tested based on the cpu processing speed, OPCON uses SIMH's event timer queue to control the updates send to the external console and is therefor not depending on the cpu speed. OPCON is also more in line with SIMH's command structure, so one can use 'attach oc connect=ser0' for example to a) active the device, and b) to specify which serial port to use. Speed is always 9600-8N1. Try 'help oc' or 'help set oc'. With 100 updates per second the console does show the data and does interact pretty well with the simulator. I have had the simulator running for several hours continuously, and no crashes did appear until now. Currently tested only on Unix/Linux, not on windows, although it should work. For now, the modified SIMH files and the software can be downloaded at www.groenenberg.net/download/OPCON. The zip file can be used as a drop-in replacement of your own source code set you pull from github. Some pics can be found using the same link, and 2 small video's are OPCON for the 11/45 : http://youtu.be/qfLkMfLMZVE OPCON for the 11/70 : http://youtu.be/MpuCwFmOEms Looking forward to receive suggestions and to hear about problems or possible code fixes. Enjoy, Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email. Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.