[Simh] Graphics on SimH

Sergiusz Jarczyk sjarczyk at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 17:44:42 EDT 2010


2010/7/9 Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org>:
[...]
> 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).
[...]

Qt us supported on Win, Mac, all major unices and, YES, on VMS... :-)
The only problem is it's C++-centric, with specific threads and tasks model...
But still, it's the best cross-platform GUI I'm aware of (sorry, no
SDL experience).

Sergiusz



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