[HECnet] RE: [DECtec] Slight OT: SIMH Framebuffer support

[Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm]

On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm
<Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Sampsa Laine write:
This looks cool, anyone try it?

http://www.9track.net/simh/video/

Hi Sampsa,

How timely of you to observe this today.

Just last night I got code pieces from Matt Burke (the guy at
9track.net) to add VCB01 (QVSS) support to the simh codebase for the
MicroVAX I and MicroVAX II simulators.

I'm in the process of merging that code and adding the necessary
build mechanisms to the makefile as we speak.

This will be cleaned up and visible at https://github.com/simh/simh
in at most a couple of days....

For folks who build their own binaries, the latest github code has a
VAXStation I and VAXStation II with the MonoChrome QVSS video
capabilities.

      sim> SET CPU MODEL=VAXSTATION

enables the video subsystem.

The VAXStation I has a limit of 4MB of RAM, the VAXStation II has a limit of
16MB.

The makefile should just build the right thing if the development support
for libSDL is installed on your platform.

Please provide bug reports and/or other feedback with issues created
at https://github.com/simh/simh/issues

There is a glitch in my scripts which build and package the windows binaries
which is failing to build the simulators with video support, so folks who count
on the Windows Binaries will have to wait until I fix this.

The Windows Binaries (including VAXStation I and VAXStation II) are now available at: https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries

Download the latest zip file.

Hello!
Nice to know Mark. Any suggestions for implementing it on a Raspberry Pi
system w/ 512MB of memory? 

I don't see any reason it wouldn't work as long as you've got the right SDL development pieces available.

I did get the code outside of your screen idea to build properly.

I'm not sure what this sentence means....   what does "code outside of your screen idea" mean?

- Mark