[Simh] More on VAX Emulation under Linux

[Paul Hardy]

Thanks to the pointer to Cygwin/X - it looks interesting. I'm busy for the 
next month, but then I'll have a go. I wonder how well it works when the VAX 
X client asks the Windows X-server for a palette-color graphics mode (as the 
VAXstation software would), when modern hardware only has direct-color 
support?.

Rethinking my original post, I don't think I meant QVSS. That was the 
monochrome display from the VS1, wasn't it (though even that would be better 
than no graphics). What I'd like is an emulation of the 8-bit colour 
graphics card used in the VAXstation II/GPX - I think that was the QDSS 
(dragon chipset?). Put the complete virtual VAXstation screen output into a 
Windows window, run X/Motif on the SIMH VAX to manage it, and away we go!

-- 
Paul Hardy
Email:   paul at paulhardy.net, web: www.paulhardy.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Foster" <simh at evilphb.org>
To: "Paul Hardy" <paul at paulhardy.net>
Cc: <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Simh] More on VAX Emulation under Linux


> Hot Diggety! Paul Hardy was rumored to have written:
>>    I could buy Exceed (at a non-trivial price) to run on my Windows
>>    laptop, but it would be even nicer if SIMH emulated one of the low-end
>>    the Vaxstation graphics cards (QVSS?). There was talk a few years ago
>>    of this being on the 'to do' list. Has it made any progress?
>
> You can get a pretty decent X server for Windows -- Cygwin, and it's free.
>
> http://www.cygwin.com
>
> Download the installer setup.exe, run it, select the complete X distro
> and any other tools you desire, select the download mirrors to use, and
> you're off to the races.
>
> As for the graphics card, that's certainly an interesting idea.
>
> -Dan
>