I did have a basic port to SDL for the spacewar thing, I need to finalize the palette and bring it up to the 3.8-1 release... Somehow I got distracted with a copy of UnixWare for some reason....
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:08 PM, dott.Piergiorgio < [email protected]> wrote: > Il 02/09/2010 14:15, Michael Kerpan ha scritto: > > There comes a time in the life of many long-term open source projects >> when the original maintainers can no longer be as active as they once >> were. The joy of open source, though, is that if that happens the >> community can continue to update the software >> > > as a "Taliban" ;) of the OS, I concur & agree; but also I reckon the role > bob has, so, IMRHO the best solution is that Bob remains (with what level of > involvment, effective or nominal, is his personal choice) as the head of the > dev activity; head, but not figurehead, if someone wonder ;) > > On practical dev activities to be done, the main things are, aside > developing new emulated cpu cores, machines, drives, &c (the ever-incresing > documentation provided by the redoutable Kossow enable developing new > emulators, IMVHO) and perfectioning the existing CPU & drivers (looking to > the DECTape marks issue, for example) I think, albeit I'm not 100% certain. > I guess that this type of works can be eased by a somewhat streamlined doc > on how one can do a barebones emulator (i'm working on and off on > "occamizing" the 8080 altair emulator into a 8008+TTY system, and isn't easy > doing the preliminary "cut works") > > Also, implementing a binary output for the EX instruction (think about EX > SR...) IMHO should be one of the priorities, > also, perhaps some graphic support (PDP-1 spacewar, for example ;) ) should > be not a bad idea. > Related to the two suggestion above, what was of that blinkenlighten > concept someone shows a year or two ago, IIRC ? > > this off my hat at the moment.... > > Best regards from Italy, > dott. Piergiorgio. > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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