[Simh] SIMH on Windows CE

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jason Stevens <neozeed at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right now I'm trying to focus on the CEPC (basically a regular x86 PC)
> running 2.11 and 3.0 as I have the platform builders for both.. I do
> have MSDN access and I think I have more in there, but I've really not
> done tooo much with it before.. I've hit the first major block, which
> is there is no good 'kbhit' for the built in console... However after
> googling around like crazy, it seems the nethack people wrote their
> own console for CE that includes... kbhit.  So right now I'm
> installing a NT 4.0 machine with evc 3 to see if I can build nethack,
> then strap simh to that...
>
> Or does my plan sound too off kilter?
>
> From what I read somewhere the latest generation of windows ce phones
> only runs managed code, killing all native code?  Or something
> involving signed binaries.. which would be out of my reach.
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com> wrote:
>> Windows CE morphed dramatically over its lifetime (and its newest incarnation is a completely different beast).  It is possible your source may build in (for instance) a WinCE 5.0 dev environment, but you won't be able to just run binaries.
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>> Subject: [Simh] SIMH on Windows CE
>>
>> For what it's worth, I'm making some headway this time....
>>
>> http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_12wzyW-As9g/TQ5YuYqXBkI/AAAAAAAAEzQ/luE8hHGqSIQ/s1600/AltairSIMH%2BCE%2B2.11.png
>>
>> I just have to see if CE's minimal libc has any good keyboard
>> routines, or what else could be involved... Or maybe I'll just cheat
>> and go the winsock route.  I'm building this under Windows CE 2.11 so
>> I'd imagine it'll run on all the newer stuff.....
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Hello!
For what's worth. I agree. As for what Microsoft does to make people
feel funny, that's a different bit-bucket. I believe the developer
pages for that thing will answer your questions.
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