15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
7:47 p.m.
Lawrence Wilkinson wrote:
For anyone who would like an example of a very simple emulator, I've got
around to 'releasing' my Educ-8 emulator. Unfortunately, it's written
in VB for Windows.
The Educ-8 was (is) a TTL-based 'microcomputer' which was published by
Electronics Australia as a build-it-yourself project c. 1975. It is
very simple, effectively an 8-bit PDP-8. There is one in the Computer
History Museum (a big surprise for me when I visited.) The emulator
gives you the front panel, switches and lights, but you can cheat and
load programs from text (assembler) files.
There is more information, and a couple of photos, at:
http://www.ljw.me.uk/educ8
Blah ... all window-eze stuff. Give me a PDF any time.
How about sending me some photo copies of the magizine,
since I don't live in OZ. :)
If you have a go at running it, please let me know how you get on. As
well as downloading the emulator you'll need to get the architecture
description if you want to write programs. It's possible it needs some
DLLs or somesuch to get it to work, let me know and I'll try to update
the download.
Lawrence
Note you may be able to get the PCB's still from here.
http://www.cia.com.au/rcsradio/index1.htm
Ben.