[Simh] MAME and simh

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> Oh, and just for the people who don't want to read a lot of
>> documentation, the smooth scrolling is essentially done by the
>> terminal by changing where the source of the video signal generation
>> picks up font information [...]
>> I hope that made sense... :-)

Thanks, I think it does.

Emulation at this level of detail really isn't that uncommon now.

> And to take this one step further. Emulation of this then means you
> need to start emulation the video signal generation. And that in turn
> means you are going to do emulation of the CRT phosphor.

I have no idea how MAME works, but SIMH does that for vector displays.
The current implemenation may not be suitable for raster displays, but
it wouldn't be a huge step to add this.