[Simh] 8-bit pseudocolor on modern Windows PC?

[Robert Thomas]

Have you investigated using eXcursion?  It was provided with VMS/OpenVMS distributions on the Pathworks CD.

To install it from the Pathworks CD, only install eXcursion.  Do not attempt to install any other item from that CD.  Once installed, zip the c:\WIN32APP directory.  It contains everything necessary to run eXcursion.  To install it on other Windows computers just unzip into c:\WIN32APP.

eXcursion runs well on all versions of Windows, e.g. Windows-10 64bit.  It has limitations, e.g. only works on display 1, limited display types, and does not support many of the modern extensions to X, but has a very small footprint, does not use the registry, requires no special privileges and is reasoanbly fast.

FYI, the Itanium systems do not support 8-bit pseudocolor on their embedded graphics.

Robert Thomas