[Simh] Running the PDP-8 SIMH Emulator on Android?

Bob Vines bobvines00 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 20 16:35:13 EDT 2019


Thanks guys, both suggestions together were successful.  :)  I'm now
running SIMH!  :)

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 4:20 PM Wilm Boerhout <wilm at boerhout.nl> wrote:

> cd into the dir (simh) that holds the makefile and rerun the make cmd
>
> /wilm
>
> Op zo 20 okt. 2019 om 22:15 schreef Bob Vines <bobvines00 at gmail.com>
>
>> Mark, et al.,
>>
>> I've installed termux and successfully(?) run the first two commands that
>> you listed, but when I try to run "make pdp8" (without the quotes) I get
>> make: *** No rule to make target 'pdp8'.  Stop.
>>
>> My "prompt" is a dollar sign ($) instead of the number sign (#), but the
>> pkg... and git... commands seem to have run correctly.  I apologize for not
>> being able to spell Linux, but I think I need more hand-holding here.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 9:36 PM Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 1:24 PM, Bob Vines wrote:
>>> > Is there an Android version of the SIMH PDP-8 emulator?
>>> > If so, can you point me to it?
>>>
>>> Well, the easiest way to get any simh simulator to run on
>>> Android is to install the "termux" android app using the
>>> Google Play store.
>>>
>>> Once termux is installed, open it and enter the following
>>> commands:
>>>
>>>         # pkg install git clang make
>>>         # git clone https://github.com/simh/simh
>>>         # make pdp8 {or any other simulator}
>>>         # BIN/pdp8
>>>         PDP-8 simulator V4.0.0 Current     git commit id: 0de9b628
>>>         sim>
>>>
>>> > Also, it there are any knowledgeable
>>> > "discussions" about this version of the emulator, can you
>>> > point me to that too?
>>>
>>> This mailing list is one place to discuss those things.  I'm sure there
>>> are other places as well.
>>>
>>> Good Luck and have fun!
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
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>
> --
> Wilm
>
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