[Simh] VAXstation 2000

Jason Stevens neozeed at gmail.com
Wed May 25 09:13:44 EDT 2011


I've uploaded it to sourceforge....

FWIW..


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM,  <scope.matthew at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> This may be a duplicate post; I tried several days ago but was unsuccessful.
>>
>> There has been a lot of discussion around graphics support recently so I thought
>>
>> I better post what i've been working on over the last month or so. I've been
>> adding several extra VAX models to simh, one of which is the VAXstation 2000.
>> Currently it has Windows GDI graphics output but I intend to add X11 support,
>> which should make it portable to most of the supported simh platforms. I think
>> VNC is probably the best approach but I went with GDI/X11 for now because it was
>>
>> quick and simple.
>>
>> Below is a link to some Win32 binaries for this emulator. I will be releasing
>> the source eventually but it needs quite a bit of tidying up first.
>>
>> https://rapidshare.com/files/3280624157/vax410_v5.zip
>>
>> (I will upload this somewhere more permanent soon)
>>
>> Bugs:
>> The first time you type 'boot cpu' after creating a new nvr file, it will halt
>> with a
>> 'TOY ERR'. Type 'boot cpu' again and subsequent runs should be ok.
>>
>> ROMs:
>> ka410.bin is the system ROM. 'load -r ka410.bin'
>> ka410_net.bin is the network ROM. 'attach or0 ka410_net.bin'
>>
>> Cursor Control:
>> Click in the video window to activate the emulated cursor; this will capture the
>>
>> host cursor.
>> Use the escape key (ESC) to release the host cursor.
>> The emulated cursor is under the control of the guest OS. Sometimes it can
>> become visible but it may not be possible to move it.
>>
>> Disks:
>> Disk images should be interchangeable with the existing VAX emulators as the
>> 'special formatting' is emulated internally. You can still run the 'TEST 70'
>> formatter if you like though ;)
>> RX50 support is untested.
>>
>> Tapes:
>> The SCSI controller is only about 10% complete and is not useable yet.
>>
>> The zip file includes both VAXstation and MicroVAX variants with and without
>> pcap. An example vax410.ini is also included.
>>
>> I hope i've covered all the important notes there. Please let me know if you see
>>
>> any other bugs not mentioned above. Testing has been done with various versions
>> of VWS and DECwindows on VMS and with the VXT software, but I haven't tried
>> Ultrix or any other Unix variant yet.
>>
>> The other VAXeni've been working on are as follows:
>>
>> VAX-11/730
>>  + Console TU58
>>  + RB730
>>
>> VAX-11/750
>>  + Console TU58
>>  + CI750
>>
>> VAX 8600
>>  + Console RL02
>>  + CI780
>>
>> MicroVAX II
>>
>> Industrial VAX 620 / rtVAX 1000
>>
>> VAX 4000-200
>>  + SHACDSSI
>>
>> I'll be uploading some more of these over the next week.
>>
>
> Amazing! Is your VAX emulation core based on SIMH or did you roll your
> own? Also, in the future could you consider using an alternate
> filehost? I find that Mediafire is a lot more friendly than Rapidshare
> and it's also free!
>
> Mike
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