Xerox Star emulator (Darkstar) released today

[Scott Kevill]

Josh didn't mention this, and I didn't see it linked on the GitHub repo, but he's also written a fantastic intro article about it here:

https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/19/introducing-darkstar-a-xerox-star-emulator/

Covers some of the Xerox Star's history, challenges of the emulation development process, photos, diagrams, and screenshots of it in action.

Highly recommended!

(even if you're not that familiar with the Xerox Star)

Scott.

On 19/01/2019, at 11:36 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Hi All --
> 
> Thought you folks might be interested -- I've been working on a Xerox Star emulator at LCM+L on and off over the past year and I've finally unleashed it upon the world.  It's called Darkstar, it's open source and it runs all the Star software I'm aware of.  The Ethernet interface is still mostly untested, however.
> 
> You can grab the emulator and its source code on our GitHub site here:https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/Darkstar.  Disk images are available on Bitsavers as always.  Thanks to Al for providing a lot of assistance on this project.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Josh
>