From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Fwd: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:25:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AA1B338-5347-40BE-BB5E-C4BDC5B0021F@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGSRWbhr=Yn55-VESzEzeSEm2wmjJ_5FO_km+PM=5CRnpjPXfQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Tim Newsham <tim.newsham@gmail.com>
> Date: April 25, 2017 at 11:05:25 PM EDT
> To: mjkerpan@kerpan.com
> Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH
>
> I got the 9front blit sources to build and run in plan9port. There's
> some serious graphics issue right now causing a lot of flicker and
> sometimes causing the graphics to not appear at all.. Anyone here
> good with plan9port graphics ports?
>
> https://github.com/timnewsham/blit
>
>
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan@kerpan.com> wrote:
>> Has the Blit emulator been ported to anything other than Plan 9 or
>> does one need to set up a VM running Plan 9 to test out the graphics?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:30 PM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This image is ready to be used with aiju's Blit emulator,
>> > which is available as part of 9front.
>> >
>> > http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front/file/tip/sys/src/games/blit
>> >
>> > This emulator works on most Plan 9 distributions. You just
>> > have to copy the /sys/lib/blit and /sys/src/games/blit
>> > directories to your system.
>> >
>> > With the v8.ini startup file provided, the console will be
>> > listening on port 8888/tcp once SIMH has been started.
>> >
>> > You have to run the emulator and connect to the console:
>> >
>> > % cd /sys/src/games/blit
>> > % mk install
>> > % games/blit -t tcp!hostname!8888
>> >
>> > Once connected, enter your login and password.
>> >
>> > login: root
>> >
>> > Then, you can launch the mux window system:
>> >
>> > $ /usr/blit/bin/mux
>> >
>> > Once started, you can run any graphical program.
>> > Binaries are located in the /usr/blit/bin directory.
>> >
>> > For example, here is jim text editor:
>> >
>> > http://9legacy.org/img/v8/jim_01.png
>> >
>> > --
>> > David du Colombier
>
>
>
> --
> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com
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2017-04-26 3:25 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2017-04-26 4:10 ` [9front] " Bruce Ellis
2017-04-26 4:22 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-26 4:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2017-04-26 19:52 ` Tony Kaku
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