[Simh] Simulating a GT40

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Tue Sep 4 03:16:46 EDT 2018


On Monday, September 3, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> > Is the ROM image you're working with a real GT40 ROM, or was it
> > generated by assembling the version from the manual that was mentioned
> > somewhere?
> 
> It's assembled from source code.  It would be great if someone with a real
> GT40 could dump the ROM contents.

That would be great, but we can start with what you've got.

> > As soon as you've got the ROM image into a form that the LOAD command
> > will load as you need it to, please send it to me and I'll build it
> > into the simulator
> 
> Certainly, that sounds great!  I already made a tool to convert the PALX binary
> format to an "lda" file.  I will need to verify the ROM image by attaching the
> simulated GT40 to a host.

Connecting to a host would be useful, but merely telnetting into a DL TCP 
port will be sufficient to prove that a few bytes move in either direction.

- Mark


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