[Simh] SIMH future releases / Sourceforge project (was RE: NetBSD5.0.2)

[Jason Stevens]

I did have a basic port to SDL for the spacewar thing, I need to finalize
the palette and bring it up to the 3.8-1 release...  Somehow I got
distracted with a copy of UnixWare for some reason....

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, dott.Piergiorgio <
dott.piergiorgio at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> Il 02/09/2010 14:15, Michael Kerpan ha scritto:
>
>  There comes a time in the life of many long-term open source projects
>> when the original maintainers can no longer be as active as they once
>> were. The joy of open source, though, is that if that happens the
>> community can continue to update the software
>>
>
> as a "Taliban" ;) of the OS, I concur & agree; but also I reckon the role
> bob has, so, IMRHO the best solution is that Bob remains (with what level of
> involvment, effective or nominal, is his personal choice) as the head of the
> dev activity; head, but not figurehead, if someone wonder ;)
>
> On practical dev activities to be done, the main things are, aside
> developing new emulated cpu cores, machines, drives, &c (the ever-incresing
> documentation provided by the redoutable Kossow enable developing new
> emulators, IMVHO) and perfectioning the existing CPU & drivers (looking to
> the DECTape marks issue, for example) I think, albeit I'm not 100% certain.
> I guess that this type of works can be eased by a somewhat streamlined doc
> on how one can do a barebones emulator (i'm working on and off on
> "occamizing" the 8080 altair emulator into a 8008+TTY system, and isn't easy
> doing the preliminary "cut works")
>
> Also, implementing a binary output for the EX instruction (think about EX
> SR...) IMHO should be one of the priorities,
> also, perhaps some graphic support (PDP-1 spacewar, for example ;) ) should
> be not a bad idea.
> Related to the two suggestion above, what was of that blinkenlighten
> concept someone shows a year or two ago, IIRC ?
>
> this off my hat at the moment....
>
> Best regards from Italy,
> dott. Piergiorgio.
>
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