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

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 &lt;tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt; 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 &lt;0intro(a)gmail.com&gt; 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?

On Mar 31, 2017, at 07:41, Michael Kerpan &lt;mjkerpan(a)kerpan.com&gt; wrote: VMs take up less space in the house :) > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Kurt H Maier &lt;khm(a)sciops.net&gt; 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

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 &lt;mjkerpan(a)kerpan.com&gt; wrote: -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com

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 &lt;mjkerpan(a)kerpan.com&gt; wrote: -- Tim Newsham | www.thenewsh.com/~newsham | @newshtwit | thenewsh.blogspot.com

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 &lt;0intro(a)gmail.com <mailto: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 <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>

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.