[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Paul Koning]

SAV files would be binaries (RT11 format).  BAS are source files.

There are a number of solutions.  Text files you could load via paper tape, with the text file attached to the SIMH tape reader.  That's not as good an answer for binaries though it could be made to work.

Magtape or disk are better solutions.  Disk works well if you have a program that can write disk images in a format the target OS knows.  That's easy in this case; you can use my "flx" (RSTS File Exchange) program to do this.  There's an older version written in C, a newer one written in Python 3.  For the former, look in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/branches/V2.6, for the latter, in svn://akdesign.dyndns.org/flx/trunk.  There's documentation for both in those respective directories.  (Commments and bug reports, especially for the new version, would be appreciated.)

	paul

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes I've found a few, but they are mostly .sav or .bas files.    
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> How do I get them into Simh without keying them though?
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> On 23 January 2018 at 19:18, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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> > On Jan 23, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Ok.  It all boots up nicely on the VT100 and is pretty much indistinguishable from the real thing.
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> > I'm now looking for something to run on it.  iirc the old RSTS distributions came with a games account -  [20,20] or something like that,  but the V10 distribution doesn't have this.  It only has the [1,2] utilities.
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> > Can anyone direct me to a source of games or other interesting software?  I've found a few, but presumably they need to be in DSK format in order for Simh to load them as a disk?  Or is there another way to point one of the emulated devices to a file on the host?
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> You might try the RSTS section of the DECUS library, which should be online somewhere.  I'm not sure where.  That will have assorted games as well as other stuff.  For example, there's a program package called COSAP which is a collection of statistical analysis tools.  That came from my alma mater, and was used there particularly in sociology courses for the students to do (occasionally meaningful) analysis on various survey databases.  It was known for sucking up lots of CPU and disk bandwidth on our machine.
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>         paul
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