Begin forwarded message: > From: Tim Newsham > Date: April 25, 2017 at 11:05:25 PM EDT > To: mjkerpan@kerpan.com > Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society > 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 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