Photorealistic frontpanels for DEC PDP simulations under SimH

[Rob Jarratt]

Hello Joerg,

I am looking to do a graphical front panel simulation of a machine I am in the process of building an emulator for. I am not very good on the graphical side and would love to understand how this was done. Can you point me at the area of the code that does this simulation, and can you offer any tips? For instance do you use photos of each button/switch etc or do you draw them in code?

Thanks

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jörg Hoppe
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> Sent: 28 March 2018 12:06
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Photorealistic frontpanels for DEC PDP simulations under SimH
> 
> Guys,
> 
> there are updates to the photorealistic PDP-8/10/11/15 panel simulations for
> SimH, code name "BlinkenBone".
> 
> * Added bigger images for 3000 pixel width screens.
> 
> * made PDP-11/70 panel behaviour compatible with the real machine
>    (after tests performed at the PDP-11/70 "Miss Piggy" at LCM in Seattle,
>    thanks to Rich Alderson & Josh Dersch).
>    Oscar Vermeulen's upcoming PiDP1170 replica will also benefit.
> 
> * Added Mike Hill's BLINKY animation as PDP-11/70 application.
> 
> * Optically enhanced the PDP-10KI10 panel:
>    Added rack background of the real KI10 at LCM.
> 
> * Merged with SimH code base from march 2018
> 
> * Some people want to reanimate a physical panel with "BlinkenBone" too, or
> did already.
> http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/setting-up-a-blinkenbone-project
>    Finally I can supply the hardware, a tested set of BeagleBone Black,
> BlinkenCape and BlinkenBoard.
>    I can't get the price below 200€, there's this penalty for manual small batch
> production (including some self-exploit).
> 
> 
> 
> Doc root page: http://www.retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone
> 
> Download: https://github.com/j-hoppe/BlinkenBone/releases
> As usual, there are precompiled distributions for Win32, Ubuntu x86 & x64,
> Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone.
> Just unzip and start some of the shell scripts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Joerg
> 
>