[Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-01-23 19:13, Bryan Davies wrote:
> Ok.  It all boots up nicely on the VT100 and is pretty much 
> indistinguishable from the real thing.

Should be. :-)

> 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.

[66,66] is what I remember from back in the day when I was using RSTS/E. 
But if that was "official" in any way I don't know.
You can always download lots of stuff from the internet otherwise. 
Bitsavers for example. I have lots of RSX stuff around, some of that 
should work on RSTS/E as well. And there is plenty of RT-11 stuff 
around, which should also work fine on RSTS/E.

> 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?

Kermit? DECnet?

> BTW I don't really want Adventure as we have that running on a MicroVAX.

You should have both Adventure and Dungeon, of course...

And if anyone could take some time to check what is needed to get ZEMU 
running on RSTS/E, then you'd have essentially all Infocom games, as 
well as anything written in Inform.
(ZEMU works fine on RSX and RT-11 today.)

   Johnny

> 
> Rgds
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On 23 January 2018 at 17:22, khandy21yo <khandy21yo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:khandy21yo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Now he needs to simulate the noise that the actual systems created.
>     A couple of vacuum  cleaners would do nicely. Maybe three?
> 
>     Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A
> 
>     -------- Original message --------
>     From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net
>     <mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net>>
>     Date: 1/23/18 7:46 AM (GMT-07:00)
>     To: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>>
>     Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com>, Mark
>     Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com <mailto:Mark at infocomm.com>>
>     Subject: Re: [Simh] PDP11 on Simh for public access
> 
> 
> 
>      > On Jan 23, 2018, at 5:55 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
>     <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>      >
>      > Good that it works. Do you know what the problem was in detail?
>     Also - with regard to cpu load. Have you told simh to idle when the
>     simulation does?
>      >
>      > And for Paul. Is rsts using the wait instruction to idle?
> 
>     Yes, RSTS idles just fine.  It uses WAIT for that (at least as far
>     back as V4).
> 
>     paul
> 
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