Emulation

• Connecting to a Remote Serial Port over TCP/IP

  2 April 2013   Tags: Linux     Emulation     Retro     Tutorial    
  Most modern machines don’t have a serial port as standard; you could use a USB to serial lead, however, if you have another machine available that does have a serial port you can access it remotely over TCP/IP. Using ser2net to Connect a Serial Port to a TCP port ser2net listens to a TCP ...   Read More
  
  

• xAce is Back in Active Development and Looking For Contributors

  6 May 2010   Tags: Emulation     Jupiter Ace     Retro     xAce    
  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 origina...   Read More
  
  

• Emulating a DEC PDP-8 with SimH

  26 May 2009   Tags: Emulation     DEC     PDP-8     Retro     SimH     Tutorial    
  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 d...   Read More
  
  

• xAce - A Jupiter Ace Emulator for Unix (Patched to correct garbled display)

  12 February 2009   Tags: Forth     Jupiter Ace     Emulation     Retro     xAce    
  The only Jupiter Ace emulator that I found, which would work under Linux, was written by Edward Patel and is called xace. There is also a Windows version available, but I don’t know anything more about that. The following instructions, taken partially from the site’s help instructions...   Read More
  
  

• Using ScummVM to Play Classic Adventure Games

  10 November 2008   Tags: Adventure Games     Games     Emulation     Retro    
  ScummVM is Virtual Machine, that allows you to run adventure games created for a number of game creation engines. This is a great way of playing those classic adventure games that you loved so much, or never got a chance to play at the time. Some of them such as Beneath a Steel Sky have rarely be...   Read More
  
  

• Using the latest z80pack, version 1.17, to emulate an Altair 8800 or IMSAI 8080 using the new graphical FrontPanel

  29 October 2008   Tags: 8080     Emulation     Retro     Tutorial     Altair     IMSAI    
  Udo Munk has just released the latest version of his z80pack emulator, version 1.17, which now includes John Kichury’s FrontPanel library. As well as being a superb emulator to run CP/M on, it now gives you a great graphical representation of the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080 with fully functi...   Read More
  
  

• Using DOSBox to Run DOS Games and Applications

  24 October 2008   Tags: DOS     Emulation     Retro     Tutorial    
  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 th...   Read More
  
  

• Setting up z80pack to Create an Emulated CP/M System

  17 October 2008   Tags: CP/M     Emulation     Retro     Z80     Tutorial    
  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...   Read More