Re: [9front] Fwd: [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH

[Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

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I had Blit serial number 4 here in Sydney. The labs were very generous. It
was great to use until the microvax with 10th edition that the labs sent me
finally gave up.

brucee

On 26 April 2017 at 13:25, Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:

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> *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*
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> 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?
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> https://github.com/timnewsham/blit
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> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan@kerpan.com>
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>> 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?
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>> Mike
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>> 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
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>> > 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.
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>> > With the v8.ini startup file provided, the console will be
>> > listening on port 8888/tcp once SIMH has been started.
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>> > You have to run the emulator and connect to the console:
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>> > % cd /sys/src/games/blit
>> > % mk install
>> > % games/blit -t tcp!hostname!8888
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>> > Once connected, enter your login and password.
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>> > login: root
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>> > Then, you can launch the mux window system:
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>> > $ /usr/blit/bin/mux
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>> > Once started, you can run any graphical program.
>> > Binaries are located in the /usr/blit/bin directory.
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>> > For example, here is jim text editor:
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>> > http://9legacy.org/img/v8/jim_01.png
>> >
>> > --
>> > David du Colombier
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> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit |
> thenewsh.blogspot.com
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