21 Feb
2018
21 Feb
'18
10:36 a.m.
i dont think there is any physical hardware to test from left sept for
maybe part of the front panel and a tape drive sitting in europe in museum
and a couple random bit in some private collections
drawings theres some but not allot. most of the known documentation is in
dutch and from what i understand i have the largest chunk of surviving
documents in english
https://imageshack.com/a/img924/4649/oyprpu.jpg
https://imageshack.com/a/img922/9277/19TwCI.jpg
https://imageshack.com/a/img922/9277/19TwCI.jpg
managed to aquire unused core sheets with this stuff was a nice bonus have
to get them framed at some point
https://imageshack.com/a/img922/841/kTGEiY.jpg
ill give those sites a look
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Eric Christopherson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Ray Arachelian via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 02/19/18 19:36, Adrian Stoness via cctalk
wrote:
Ray, you've provided a few really excellent messages here.
[snip]
whats invovled in makin an emulator?
i have a chunk of stuff for the phillips p1000
Quite a lot actually. A single CPU system is difficult enough, but a
mainframe might be much, much harder. The idea to use an existing
emulator framework, such as SIMH, is a great one.
Are you planning on emulating the whole machine,
or just the userland?
Might be easier to create a simulation of the OS in software on the host
side the way that Executor did with MacOS - Cliff implemented his own
version of MacOS 7.x, enough to be able to run most applications of that
era, but not all. see: https://github.com/ctm/executor.git and
https://github.com/ctm/executor.git - some of this is called "High Level
Emulation" and is sort of what WINE does (though wine isn't an emulator).
You put the same URL in twice there; did you intend for another URL?
I was quite a fan of Executor. It's cool to see that it's open source now.
Be careful
as there's a lot of "emu scene" folks out there with tons of free time,
more than you might have, who will happily promise to help, but instead
take your documentation, firmware, OS images, etc. and compete with you
behind your back just to get there first, instead of actually helping
you with your project. On this latter point, I sadly speak from
experience.
Wow, I didn't know about that. Good to know.
--
Eric Christopherson