PDP-8 diagnostic tests

[Toby Thain]

On 2016-08-24 3:24 PM, Don North wrote:
> On 8/24/2016 2:21 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:31:42PM -0700, Scott Baker wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   1) DEC documentation which more fully describes all the instruction
>>> set (in
>>> more detail  than the PDP-8 handbook)
>> Not DEC documentation but a good resource:
>> http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/man/
>>
>> I've written an emulator purely from these pages and it passes the
>> MAINDEC-8E-D0AB-PB instruction tests.
>>
>> Here is IAC described:
>> http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/man/micro.html#iac
>>
>>> 2) Some more instruction tests in assembler source code format. I have
>>> found lots of binary files but I would prefer assembler source code
>>> format.
>>> I am using a pal compatible cross assembler.
>> I don't have any of those. But I've used Krten's d8tape to dissasemble
>> BIN files with good result:
>>
>> http://dustyoldcomputers.com/pdp-common/reference/host/index.html
>>
>> That and the source code listings on bitsavers.
>>
>> /P
>>
> Also I did not mention earlier my PDP-8 diagnostic page:
> http://www.ak6dn.com/PDP-8/MAINDEC/
> has more or less what you asked for. It has all the base PDP-8e series
> CPU core diagnostics as listings
> in PDF, binary tape images in BIN and RIM, and disassembled sources in
> PAL and assembled LST.
>
> BTW my PDP-8 implementation in Verilog (not VHDL) passes all these
> diagnostics, as well as running
> chess, focal, and other such images.

Hi Don

Is it published anywhere?

--Toby

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