5 Apr
2007
5 Apr
'07
4:30 a.m.
1) Can you specify which pages to swap? For the
Z-machine, one would
want to swap the game data first, then the interpreter (if at all).
I'm afraid I don't remember much about its architecture. I don't
think there was a way to "lock" pages into memory.
2) Perhaps this emulator could be stripped down to to
run one
particular
program: Frotz compiled for pdp11.
Probably.
3) Can the emulator be wrapped up with the only
binary it will
run? The
idea is to have a single Frotz binary for pdp8 to simplify
distribution.
The biggest problem is that it only exists as a paper listing at the
moment. I'm planning on typing it in once I get my SBC6120 working
(still have some parts on order). In any case, it was written using
PAL8 so it isn't a library that can be linked with other modules. I
guess that could be changed too. Are there PDP-8 cross development
tools available for modern machines?