On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Michael Richter <[email protected]> wrote: > Question #1: I'm trying to find some programs to put into my RSTS system and > stumbled over some files on BitSaver that I can't figure out. > (http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/ would be an example.) They > end in .dta and seem to be viable tape images of some kind when I inspect > the contents. For > example http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/rsts/SeattlePacificCollege/158_ahl_basic_games.dta.gz > has a whole bunch of BASIC source files which appear to be in perfect order. > Yet I cannot find any combination of SIMH attach and RSTS mount commands > that will allow me to actually access the contents of these. What, if > anything, is the trick to accessing these mysterious "DTA" formatted images? > Is there any kind of tool to convert to a format that SIMH supports? > Question #2: I want to start tinkering with TOPS-20 under SIMH, but I can't > find a sysgen tape image that boots. Every one I've tried so far after > attaching and using SIMH's boot command has just led to SIMH sucking up all > my CPU and doing nothing else, even if left alone for hours. Does anybody > know of a known-good tape image to sysgen a TOPS-20 installation from that > works under SIMH?
I can't help with the PDP-11 BASIC games, but as for TOPS-20, you have to use version 4.1 or earlier. I've done it and it works fine. IIRC. Just get your tapes here: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ If you really want to have the best possible TOPS-20 experience, though, I really recommend using KLH-10, which allows the us of the newest available version of TOPS-20 (including the excellent Panda distribution) instead. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
