On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Shoppa, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose some people want to run an archaic windowing system. > > I look at this a little differently - I usually want to run an archaic > application. And that archaic application usually supports > Tek 4014 or similar graphics. In fact it usually didn't run under a windowing > or framebuffer system to begin with.
That's fine, but there are still whole bunches of things that don't support 4014 graphics that would be fun to muck with. The VAX framebuffer is one example. The built-in vector display system of the PDP-1 is another. Various graphics cards for systems like the PDP-11 or the S100 bus system are another still. All these things would benefit from SIMH having a virtual framebuffer that graphical device emulation code could write to and that could be viewed by an external client. I'm not saying that good Tektronix emulation won't take care of a lot of graphics stuff, I'm just saying that a modular system to allow for guest-specific video hardware to be emulated in a uniform way would useful. PS, are there any free terminal emulators with support for terminal-based graphics? Xterm does a mediocre job with Tek, but other systems like DEC Regis/Sixel and DG Dasher seem to be completely unsupported by any free (over even cheap) software in any meaningful way... Maybe a nice cross-platform retro-oriented terminal emulation suite would make a nice counterpart to SIMH? _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
