On 1 April 2016 at 15:54, Ray Jewhurst <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used to use the SIMH for the Android (which cost me about $13) but now > that I have Lollipop. It doesn't work anymore. I know I could hack my > tablet but it's connected through a Cell service provider so I'd rather > not. I know the terminal I used Better Terminal Emulator Pro which was > required for the port. > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Henry Bent <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I ended up with a spare Kindle Touch and didn't need an ebook reader, so >> I decided it might make a nice platform for SIMH. After jailbreaking and >> rooting the Kindle, it's just Linux (and X11 for the Kindle interface) so >> cross-compiling SIMH was easy. Networking over wifi obviously doesn't work >> (as recently discussed here) but networking over USB does, so it's tethered >> to a server for connection sharing. The performance is pretty good for >> such a small device. It's about equivalent to a real VAX 4000/200, so >> approximately 5 VUP. Certainly more than fast enough for 4.2BSD on a >> simulated 11/780! Next step is to get some sort of console working - right >> now there's no way that I have found to display console output on the >> screen. >> >> -Henry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> > > Oh, somebody made SIMH a paid app? That's no fun... In theory it should be easy enough to cross-compile binaries using the Android NDK. I'll look into it at some point when I have a little bit of time. Of course networking isn't going to work over wireless, but I suppose there's still plenty to do without it. -Henry
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