* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH @ 2017-03-28 18:58 David du Colombier 2017-03-28 19:32 ` Cory Smelosky ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: David du Colombier @ 2017-03-28 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw) Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. Fell free to use, improve and share. -- David du Colombier ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-28 18:58 [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH David du Colombier @ 2017-03-28 19:32 ` Cory Smelosky 2017-03-28 23:50 ` Tim Newsham ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Cory Smelosky @ 2017-03-28 19:32 UTC (permalink / raw) On Tue, Mar 28, 2017, at 11:58, David du Colombier wrote: > Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. > > http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 > > These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be > sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. > > Fell free to use, improve and share. > > -- > David du Colombier Don't forget creating /tmp and /usr/tmp in the v8 environment - `man` complains otherwise. -- Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-28 18:58 [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH David du Colombier 2017-03-28 19:32 ` Cory Smelosky @ 2017-03-28 23:50 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-25 3:16 ` Tim Newsham 2017-03-29 1:06 ` Henry Bent 2017-03-30 14:16 ` David du Colombier 3 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-03-28 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw) Would be great if someone scripted it up to make it dog-simple. Here's how I did it for v6: http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/myv6/README (I should do this, but I'm not sure I'll have time in the near future). On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:58 AM, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com> wrote: > Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. > > http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 > > These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be > sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. > > Fell free to use, improve and share. > > -- > David du Colombier > -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170328/d52a2710/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-28 23:50 ` Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-25 3:16 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-25 20:34 ` David du Colombier 2017-04-26 3:50 ` Cory Smelosky 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-25 3:16 UTC (permalink / raw) I put together some scripts to install V8 from tape: https://github.com/timnewsham/myv8 My goals are (roughly in order): - easy to use - documentary - reproducible I also moved my earlier v6 installer to github for convenience: https://github.com/timnewsham/myv6 On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com> wrote: > Would be great if someone scripted it up to make it dog-simple. > Here's how I did it for v6: http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/myv6/README > (I should do this, but I'm not sure I'll have time in the near future). > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:58 AM, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. >> >> http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 >> >> These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be >> sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. >> >> Fell free to use, improve and share. >> >> -- >> David du Colombier >> > > > > -- > Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | > thenewsh.blogspot.com > -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170424/9a657226/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-25 3:16 ` Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-25 20:34 ` David du Colombier 2017-04-26 3:50 ` Cory Smelosky 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: David du Colombier @ 2017-04-25 20:34 UTC (permalink / raw) > I put together some scripts to install V8 from tape: > https://github.com/timnewsham/myv8 > > My goals are (roughly in order): > - easy to use > - documentary > - reproducible > > I also moved my earlier v6 installer to github for convenience: > https://github.com/timnewsham/myv6 Very nice work! Thanks. -- David du Colombier ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-25 3:16 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-25 20:34 ` David du Colombier @ 2017-04-26 3:50 ` Cory Smelosky 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Cory Smelosky @ 2017-04-26 3:50 UTC (permalink / raw) I've invited you to the TUHS github group so you can toss it there, too. On Mon, Apr 24, 2017, at 20:16, Tim Newsham wrote: > I put together some scripts to install V8 from tape: > https://github.com/timnewsham/myv8 > > My goals are (roughly in order): > - easy to use > - documentary > - reproducible > > I also moved my earlier v6 installer to github for convenience: > https://github.com/timnewsham/myv6 > > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Tim Newsham > <tim.newsham at gmail.com> wrote:>> Would be great if someone scripted it up to make it dog-simple. >> Here's how I did it for v6: >> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/myv6/README>> (I should do this, but I'm not sure I'll have time in the near >> future).>> >> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:58 AM, David du Colombier >> <0intro at gmail.com> wrote:>>> Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. >>> >>> http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 >>> >>> These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be >>> sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. >>> >>> Fell free to use, improve and share. >>> >>> -- >>> David du Colombier >> >> >> >> -- >> Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | >> thenewsh.blogspot.com>> > > > > -- > Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | > thenewsh.blogspot.com -- Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170425/1aef9acf/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-28 18:58 [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH David du Colombier 2017-03-28 19:32 ` Cory Smelosky 2017-03-28 23:50 ` Tim Newsham @ 2017-03-29 1:06 ` Henry Bent 2017-03-29 1:19 ` Cory Smelosky 2017-03-30 14:16 ` David du Colombier 3 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Henry Bent @ 2017-03-29 1:06 UTC (permalink / raw) I can install 4.1BSD just fine, but I seem to be having trouble writing anything to a second RP06: # mkfs /dev/hp1a 7942 isize = 5072 m/n = 3 500 # mkfs /dev/hp1g 145673 isize = 65488 m/n = 3 500 # mount /dev/hp1a /v8 # mkdir /v8/usr # mount /dev/hp1g /v8/usr # cd /v8 # mt rew # mt fsf 2 # tar xvpb 20 hp0a: hard error sn10 mbsr=82000<PGE,DTCMP> er1=0 er2=0 hp1a: hard error sn16 er1=5<RMR,ILF> er2=0 mkdir: cannot make directory adm ... Am I missing something, or did I run into a SIMH bug? My /dev entries all look fine. -Henry On 28 March 2017 at 14:58, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com> wrote: > Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. > > http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 > > These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be > sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. > > Fell free to use, improve and share. > > -- > David du Colombier > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170328/0b4b841e/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-29 1:06 ` Henry Bent @ 2017-03-29 1:19 ` Cory Smelosky 2017-03-29 1:35 ` Henry Bent 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Cory Smelosky @ 2017-03-29 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw) Yes - there is a SIMH bug One I think I reported, actually maybe... Use SIMH 3.8-1 Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 28, 2017, at 18:06, Henry Bent via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote: > > I can install 4.1BSD just fine, but I seem to be having trouble writing anything to a second RP06: > > # mkfs /dev/hp1a 7942 > isize = 5072 > m/n = 3 500 > # mkfs /dev/hp1g 145673 > isize = 65488 > m/n = 3 500 > # mount /dev/hp1a /v8 > # mkdir /v8/usr > # mount /dev/hp1g /v8/usr > # cd /v8 > # mt rew > # mt fsf 2 > # tar xvpb 20 > hp0a: hard error sn10 mbsr=82000<PGE,DTCMP> er1=0 er2=0 > hp1a: hard error sn16 er1=5<RMR,ILF> er2=0 > mkdir: cannot make directory adm > ... > > Am I missing something, or did I run into a SIMH bug? My /dev entries all look fine. > > -Henry > >> On 28 March 2017 at 14:58, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com> wrote: >> Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. >> >> http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 >> >> These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be >> sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. >> >> Fell free to use, improve and share. >> >> -- >> David du Colombier > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170328/651897b1/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-29 1:19 ` Cory Smelosky @ 2017-03-29 1:35 ` Henry Bent 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Henry Bent @ 2017-03-29 1:35 UTC (permalink / raw) After looking at some open SIMH bugs, doing "set noasync" seems to fix the problem. -Henry On 28 March 2017 at 21:19, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: > Yes - there is a SIMH bug > > One I think I reported, actually maybe... > > Use SIMH 3.8-1 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 28, 2017, at 18:06, Henry Bent via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> > wrote: > > I can install 4.1BSD just fine, but I seem to be having trouble writing > anything to a second RP06: > > # mkfs /dev/hp1a 7942 > isize = 5072 > m/n = 3 500 > # mkfs /dev/hp1g 145673 > isize = 65488 > m/n = 3 500 > # mount /dev/hp1a /v8 > # mkdir /v8/usr > # mount /dev/hp1g /v8/usr > # cd /v8 > # mt rew > # mt fsf 2 > # tar xvpb 20 > hp0a: hard error sn10 mbsr=82000<PGE,DTCMP> er1=0 er2=0 > hp1a: hard error sn16 er1=5<RMR,ILF> er2=0 > mkdir: cannot make directory adm > ... > > Am I missing something, or did I run into a SIMH bug? My /dev entries all > look fine. > > -Henry > > On 28 March 2017 at 14:58, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here are my notes to run 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH. >> >> http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/simh/v8 >> >> These notes are quite raw and unpolished, but should be >> sufficient to get Unix running on SIMH. >> >> Fell free to use, improve and share. >> >> -- >> David du Colombier >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170328/d0e4df8a/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-28 18:58 [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH David du Colombier ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2017-03-29 1:06 ` Henry Bent @ 2017-03-30 14:16 ` David du Colombier 2017-03-30 18:30 ` David du Colombier 3 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: David du Colombier @ 2017-03-30 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw) I've created a 8th Edition Unix disk image for SIMH. http://9legacy.org/download/unix/v8-simh.tar.bz2 This archive contains the RP06 disk image and the startup file. You can run it this way : $ simh-vax780 v8.ini Let me know if you encounter any issue. -- David du Colombier ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-30 14:16 ` David du Colombier @ 2017-03-30 18:30 ` David du Colombier 2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan 2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham 0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: David du Colombier @ 2017-03-30 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-30 18:30 ` David du Colombier @ 2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan 2017-03-31 5:36 ` Kurt H Maier 2017-04-26 3:05 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham 1 sibling, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Michael Kerpan @ 2017-03-31 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 at 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan @ 2017-03-31 5:36 ` Kurt H Maier 2017-03-31 14:41 ` Michael Kerpan 2017-04-26 3:05 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Tim Newsham 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Kurt H Maier @ 2017-03-31 5:36 UTC (permalink / raw) On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:05:16AM -0400, 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? 9front works fine on actual hardware, no vm necessary. khm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-31 5:36 ` Kurt H Maier @ 2017-03-31 14:41 ` Michael Kerpan 2017-03-31 16:34 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMHtuhs Cory Smelosky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Michael Kerpan @ 2017-03-31 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw) VMs take up less space in the house :) On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm at sciops.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:05:16AM -0400, 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? > > 9front works fine on actual hardware, no vm necessary. > > khm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMHtuhs 2017-03-31 14:41 ` Michael Kerpan @ 2017-03-31 16:34 ` Cory Smelosky 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Cory Smelosky @ 2017-03-31 16:34 UTC (permalink / raw) Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 31, 2017, at 07:41, Michael Kerpan <mjkerpan at kerpan.com> wrote: > > VMs take up less space in the house :) > >> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Kurt H Maier <khm at sciops.net> wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:05:16AM -0400, 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? >> >> 9front works fine on actual hardware, no vm necessary. >> >> khm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan 2017-03-31 5:36 ` Kurt H Maier @ 2017-04-26 3:05 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 5:53 ` Noel Hunt 2017-04-26 23:49 ` Tim Newsham 1 sibling, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 3:05 UTC (permalink / raw) 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 at 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 at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170425/7b9c43ef/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 3:05 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 5:53 ` Noel Hunt 2017-04-26 6:10 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 23:49 ` Tim Newsham 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Noel Hunt @ 2017-04-26 5:53 UTC (permalink / raw) I have ported the original Blit pads to use the Plan9 graphics primitives in the plan9port. I have also got a few of the jerq test programs running under plan9port. Are you struggling with how to translate 'bitblt' and 'rectf' into Plan9 equivalents? On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 at 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 at 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170426/b5e4ae82/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 5:53 ` Noel Hunt @ 2017-04-26 6:10 ` Tim Newsham 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 6:10 UTC (permalink / raw) I got it sorted.. the program was mistakenly thinking there were constant window resizes. the flicker is now solved. There is still some issue where the keyboard processing is sometimes getting stuck during startup... when it works, it seems to work well, but it usually fails on startup.. more debugging. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Noel Hunt <noel.hunt at gmail.com> wrote: > I have ported the original Blit pads to use the Plan9 graphics > primitives in the plan9port. I have also got a few of the jerq > test programs running under plan9port. Are you struggling with > how to translate 'bitblt' and 'rectf' into Plan9 equivalents? > > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 at 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 at 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 >> > > -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170425/bdd6de24/attachment-0001.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 3:05 ` [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 5:53 ` Noel Hunt @ 2017-04-26 23:49 ` Tim Newsham 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw) the plan9port of blit is now usable. (I also updated myv8 to include blit supporting materials) On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 at 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 at 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 > -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170426/49a176d6/attachment-0001.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-03-30 18:30 ` David du Colombier 2017-03-31 5:05 ` Michael Kerpan @ 2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat 2017-04-26 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier 1 sibling, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 22:45 UTC (permalink / raw) Do you know who wrote the /sys/src/games/blit emulator? There's a piece of code in it that I had to comment out that I dont understand and I want to ask about it: } - write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); + /* I dont know what this was for, but it spews garbage + * out telnet to the vax, causing it to hang. + */ + //write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); } I'm not sure what fd 3 is intended to be, but its the telnet socket in p9p. On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:30 AM, David du Colombier <0intro at 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170426/ed0ca9a1/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham @ 2017-04-26 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat 2017-04-26 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall 2017-04-26 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier 1 sibling, 1 reply; 23+ messages in thread From: Arthur Krewat @ 2017-04-26 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw) Who hard-codes a file handle? FD 3 would be the first FD opened after stdin, stdout, and stderr. On 4/26/2017 6:45 PM, Tim Newsham wrote: > Do you know who wrote the /sys/src/games/blit emulator? > There's a piece of code in it that I had to comment out that > I dont understand and I want to ask about it: > > } > - write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); > + /* I dont know what this was for, but it spews garbage > + * out telnet to the vax, causing it to hang. > + */ > + //write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); > } > > I'm not sure what fd 3 is intended to be, but its the telnet socket in > p9p. > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 8:30 AM, David du Colombier <0intro at gmail.com > <mailto:0intro at 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 > <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 > <http://9legacy.org/img/v8/jim_01.png> > > -- > David du Colombier > > > > > -- > Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham > <http://www.thenewsh.com/%7Enewsham> | @newshtwit | > thenewsh.blogspot.com <http://thenewsh.blogspot.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20170426/73e1bc16/attachment.html> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat @ 2017-04-26 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall 0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Dave Horsfall @ 2017-04-26 23:21 UTC (permalink / raw) On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: > Who hard-codes a file handle? It was fairly common in the early days, when FDs were predictable. > FD 3 would be the first FD opened after stdin, stdout, and stderr. And given that it's writing something called "rom", it's probably a ROM image. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
* [TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH 2017-04-26 22:45 ` Tim Newsham 2017-04-26 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat @ 2017-04-26 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier 1 sibling, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread From: Kurt H Maier @ 2017-04-26 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw) On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:45:17PM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote: > Do you know who wrote the /sys/src/games/blit emulator? > There's a piece of code in it that I had to comment out that > I dont understand and I want to ask about it: > > } > - write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); > + /* I dont know what this was for, but it spews garbage > + * out telnet to the vax, causing it to hang. > + */ > + //write(3, rom, sizeof(rom)); > } > > I'm not sure what fd 3 is intended to be, but its the telnet socket in p9p. aiju (not on this list) wrote games/blit. You're working from a copy a couple revisions behind; that line was leftover debugging stuff removed in revision 6842e7932c68 in the 9front tree, which is available at http://code.9front.org/hg/plan9front khm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 23+ messages in thread
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