[Simh] UNS: Graphics on SimH

Brad Parker brad at heeltoe.com
Fri Jul 9 08:11:31 EDT 2010


Bob Supnik wrote:
> I've consulted with experts (ie, my children, who write computer games) 
> on possibilities for truly OS independent graphics packages.  One 
> possibility is Java, but the issues of interfacing a single-threaded C 
> program - SimH - to the inherently multithreaded Java environment are 
> not trivial.  Portable packages, like Qt, usually omit one of the 
> supported host systems (Windows, VMS, Unix, Linux, MacOS).
>   
Take a look at SDL.  It supports X windows and Win32 well, as well as MacOS.

I've used SDL on several emulation projects and found it works well and 
is simple.

I doubt you'll find anything which works on the top 3 *and* VMS, however.

-brad




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