xAce is Back in Active Development and Looking For ContributorsWritten by Lawrence Woodman on 6th May 2010 Tags: Emulation, Jupiter Ace, Retro
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xAce is a great Jupiter Ace emulator and is in fact the one that I use the most, however it hasn't been actively developed since 1997 and
therefore has some shortcomings. I am keen to improve the emulator and have quite a few plans for it. I have been in touch with Edward Patel, the original author of xAce, and he is happy to see xAce development continued. The code is licensed under the GPL v2 and I know that people are working separately on improvements to it, but think it would great if we could all work together to get the most out of this emulator and to make sure that we can use each of our strengths to best advantage.
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Read more Emulating a DEC PDP-8 with SimHWritten by Lawrence Woodman on 26th May 2009 Tags: DEC, Emulation, PDP-8, Retro, SimH, Tutorials
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The DEC PDP-8 mini-computer was launched on 22 March 1965 and was a great success. It was fairly cheap for the day and could easily be expanded. What attracts me most to the PDP-8 is its simple design. I therefore decided to experiment with the SimH emulation of this machine, but found that the documentation wasn't always straightforward. This article intends to show how easy SimH is and how powerful it can be. |
Read more xAce - A Jupiter Ace Emulator for Unix (Patched to correct garbled display)Written by Lawrence Woodman on 12th February 2009 Tags: Emulation, Forth, Jupiter Ace, Retro
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I love the idea of the Jupiter Ace and think that the choice of the forth programming language was perfect for such a low-spec machine. It is a real shame that forth wasn't chosen for more computers of the period, instead of their using basic. I have not found many emulators for this machine and only one that I could run natively under Linux. This did, however, need patching, as without it the screen wasn't displaying properly. I will show how to patch it in this short post.
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Read more Using DOSBox to Run DOS Games and ApplicationsWritten by Lawrence Woodman on 24th October 2008 Tags: DOS, Emulation, Retro, Tutorials
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There were some brilliant games and applications released for DOS, and some of the games such as Command and Conquer are still very playable. There are a number of options to play these games today, from using a Virtual Machine such as QEMU, to DOSBox which is a dedicated DOS emulator. Both of these are included in most Linux distributions. I have chosen DOSBox as it is quick and very easy to use, you don't need to install a DOS compatible operating system on it, and it uses your native file system for storage.
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Read more Setting up z80pack to create an emulated CP/M systemWritten by Lawrence Woodman on 17th October 2008 Tags: CP/M, Emulation, Retro, Tutorials, Z80
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I have decided to try out some old CP/M software, but need something to run it on. I could either do this on my Commodore 128 or through emulation. Unfortunately the 1571 disk drive for my Commodore is currently out of action, so that leaves me with emulation. I was going to use vice to emulate a C128, but have always found it a pain to get CP/M files onto .D64/71 disk images. After looking around for the best emulator to run CP/M on, I came up with either YAZE-AG or z80pack. z80pack seems to be better supported, has more documentation and is being actively developed, so that's the one I have chosen for this article.
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