[Simh] Strange question

[Richard Cornwell]

Hi,

  The Windows XP version should work on Win 98. Windows since 95 has
  been 32 bit. This depends on the calls that SimH uses. At most, a
  recompile would be needed. However not sure if you can find a Windows
  95/98 C compiler anymore. 

Rich

> That would be an exercise for someone with sufficient interest.  That
> would not be me.
> 
> Meanwhile, given the particularly low demand for this, I might not be
> interested in merging changes necessary to get that working…
> 
> From: Paul Koning [mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:18 PM
> To: Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>
> Cc: Ray Jewhurst <raywjewhurst at gmail.com>; simh
> <simH at trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] Strange question
> 
> Might it run in a DOS environment if built with DJGPP?  That's,
> pretty much, a 32 bit environment where code written for plain 32 bit
> Unixes is generally happy.  It still exists.  That runs on Win 98, of
> course.  And raw DOS.
> 
>           paul
> 
> On Sep 5, 2017, at 7:13 PM, Mark Pizzolato
> <Mark at infocomm.com<mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>> wrote:
> 
> As far as I know, no version of simh will run on any base 16bit OS.
> 
> The furthest back I’ve tried to support is XP.  Current binaries will
> run there.
> 
> Meanwhile, you might want to ask a different question:
> 
>                 Will simh run on Android?
> 
> That answer is yes.  Several folks have achieved this.  A few years
> back the normal makefile would work for some version of the Android
> cross development environment.  I haven’t tried lately.
> 
> There is a very old version of simh (3.02) available on the Google
> Play store.
> 
> More recent discussion and work:
> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2016-September/015867.html
> 
> 
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Ray
> Jewhurst Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 1:27 PM
> To: simh <simH at trailing-edge.com<mailto:simH at trailing-edge.com>>
> Subject: [Simh] Strange question
> 
> Iwindows  was wondering what is the newest version of SIMH that will
> run on Windows 98SE? I am trying an emulator on my phone and Win98 is
> the newest version of Windows that will run well.
> 
> Thanks
> Ray
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