[Simh] Graphics on SimH

Pär Moberg gw at ghost-wolf.com
Sat Jul 10 06:16:45 EDT 2010


I just remembered that there is a implementation of vnc in the contiki 
OS, it should be light weight since it runs on 8-bit machine. It is 
under a BSD licence. home page: http://www.sics.se/contiki/

2010-07-09 03:34, Bob Supnik skrev:
> 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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