[Simh] Graphics on SimH

[Jason Stevens]

Bob,

If you could post that PDP-1 work somewhere, I've love to tackle it...!  I'm
sure I could cook up something SDL/VNC wise....

I know it may not count for much here, but I did manage to get Quake running
on NeXTSTEP.... (from the SDL sources), and I think I could at least get
that going...

I've read that SDL can support OpenVMS via it's X11?

I'm not much of a VMS programmer, but I'd sure like to help the cause.

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org> wrote:

> There is actually an implementation of the PDP-1's frame buffer on SimH,
> done several revs ago.  I believe that it relies on native Windows calls
> for the Windows family, and native X Windows call for everyone else.
> That's certainly a viable approach.
>
> 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).
>
> I can post the PDP-1 work somewhere, if people are interested in looking
> at it.
>
> /Bob Supnik
>
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