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If you wanted an Emulator what would it be?

rcman2

rcman2

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Hi,

I'm just wanted to know if anyone wanted an emulator for something what would it be?

Thanks
RC
 
Al Kossow said:
The Berkeley Computer Corporation BCC-500
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Wow that is an interesting read. Needed to look that one up :)

What would you do with something like that? It's a real interesting piece.
RC
 
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Off the top of my head I was going to suggest a TX-0 emulator running the original Sketchpad code until I bothered searching and lo and behold there is a TX-2 + Sketchpad project on Github.
It is in Rust though, not my cup of tea but it looks like a pretty serious attempt at implementation.
 
1944GPW said:
Off the top of my head I was going to suggest a TX-0 emulator running the original Sketchpad code until I bothered searching and lo and behold there is a TX-2 + Sketchpad project on Github.
It is in Rust though, not my cup of tea but it looks like a pretty serious attempt at implementation.
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Another interesting one, tell me why you would want something like that? I guess we all do it for nostalgia.
RC
 
It already exists, but needs lots of corrections and is not finished but... I would need hands with the Datamaster driver at MAME. It is the only one for the machine and I wrote it from scratch, without previous knowledge of C++.
 
RetroAND said:
It already exists, but needs lots of corrections and is not finished but... I would need hands with the Datamaster driver at MAME. It is the only one for the machine and I wrote it from scratch, without previous knowledge of C++.
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So when I looked this up, it looked like you draw with a pen. Is that not the right thing?
Thanks
RC
 
rcman2 said:
Are we not talking about the TX-2 ? I'm looking at lots of links on the web but I still don't understand it's main goal.
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I knew something was off! 🙂
No, I am not talking about the TX-2. Like I said I was talking about the Datamaster. Maybe you answered the wrong person, but don't worry.
 
RetroAND said:
I knew something was off! 🙂
No, I am not talking about the TX-2. Like I said I was talking about the Datamaster. Maybe you answered the wrong person, but don't worry.
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Okay sorry about that. When you said "Datamaster driver at MAME." I'm not sure what that meant.

RC
 
rcman2 said:
Okay sorry about that. When you said "Datamaster driver at MAME." I'm not sure what that meant.

RC
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In the MAME multi-emulator environment, any emulated system is called a "driver". Datamaster is the computer, made by IBM, that immediately preceded the PC.
 
RetroAND said:
In the MAME multi-emulator environment, any emulated system is called a "driver". Datamaster is the computer, made by IBM, that immediately preceded the PC.
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Thank you for clearing that up. So an emulator exists that you wrote? That's cool! Is it on github?
RC
 
rcman2 said:
Thank you for clearing that up. So an emulator exists that you wrote? That's cool! Is it on github?
RC
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I wrote parts of it, but not everything. Fortunately the components I needed to emulate were already there, so it was a huge advantadge. I had to correct a behavior of the 8275 because it didn't emulate the initial state prior to initialization.

Yes, it's a MAME fork you can find there: https://github.com/RetroAND/mame/tree/master

I had a lot of help too, without so many people supporting it the driver wouldn't have been possible.

Other than that, I made an 8085 emulator in Java when I was younger, but the source isn't available anymore.
 
How about an emulator that can run IBM AIX? Afaik that doesn't exist.

(Not sure if this is the first choice if I really would be given the option to have a single emulator made by a team of experts, and thus would have to choose super carefully, but still).
 
MiaM said:
How about an emulator that can run IBM AIX? Afaik that doesn't exist.

(Not sure if this is the first choice if I really would be given the option to have a single emulator made by a team of experts, and thus would have to choose super carefully, but still).
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That's funny you should say that, I wanted to make one. I already made a Xenix and VAX/VMS one for the PICO in MicroPython.

RC
 
shattered said:
Which version of AIX, though? https://github.com/yousbot/IBM-AIX-Emulation-Guide is a howto for 7.2/ppc64 and qemu.
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That can be an issue, especially if you want a graphical environment. Installing a machine via QEMU or Mame for some systems is fine. The ones that are console based are easier to do for me. I have tried doing graphical ones but they're not the same.

There are a lot of older systems out there that don't have emulators.
RC
 
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