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Jim Rees
Mar 28, 2012, 9:17:15 AM3/28/12
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A new version of Hans Ostermeyer's Apollo emulator has arrived in my
inbox and I have put it in the Apollo Archive at http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/
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From: Hans Ostermeyer
* upgraded to MESS 0.144
* implemented most missing FPU opcodes (e.g. log10, sin, cos, ...;
Domain/OS won't crash any more from missing FPU features)
* added real Ethernet access to other Apollo workstations or PCs
rcp and rsh access from some other Linux PC is now possible,
lcnode will show emulation(s) and other connected Apollo
workstations,
file system of Apollo workstations may be accessed from the
emulation,
emulation may boot and run from a real Apollo workstation with
SR10.2
(and vice versa)
* /systest/sax will run (with errors but) without crashing the
emulation
* added DN5500 and DSP5500 (MD Test and dex and most SAU14 programs
work,
Domain/OS will crash as the 68040 MMU is not yet implemented)
* cartridge tape emulation now works for dex, installation, rbak and
wbak
* Domain/OS SR10.4 may now be installed using only ctape image files
Meanwhile I added most of the Apollo emulation sources to MESS. The
next MESS version (0.146) will provide the latest Apollo emulator w/o
additional patches.
inbox and I have put it in the Apollo Archive at http://www.umich.edu/~archive/apollo/
.
From: Hans Ostermeyer
* upgraded to MESS 0.144
* implemented most missing FPU opcodes (e.g. log10, sin, cos, ...;
Domain/OS won't crash any more from missing FPU features)
* added real Ethernet access to other Apollo workstations or PCs
rcp and rsh access from some other Linux PC is now possible,
lcnode will show emulation(s) and other connected Apollo
workstations,
file system of Apollo workstations may be accessed from the
emulation,
emulation may boot and run from a real Apollo workstation with
SR10.2
(and vice versa)
* /systest/sax will run (with errors but) without crashing the
emulation
* added DN5500 and DSP5500 (MD Test and dex and most SAU14 programs
work,
Domain/OS will crash as the 68040 MMU is not yet implemented)
* cartridge tape emulation now works for dex, installation, rbak and
wbak
* Domain/OS SR10.4 may now be installed using only ctape image files
Meanwhile I added most of the Apollo emulation sources to MESS. The
next MESS version (0.146) will provide the latest Apollo emulator w/o
additional patches.
ri...@google.com
May 13, 2012, 10:14:05 AM5/13/12
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This is great news!
Do you have some configuration examples? I'm having trouble to make it boot from the harddrive, and I assume I probably just got the geometry wrong.
I built it from subversion (I assume this contains all the latest patches). I'm trying to install from the tape images from bitsavers (domain os 10.4), and the installation itself seems to go just fine, but when booting from harddrive I get "error: sysboot not found".
Rico
Do you have some configuration examples? I'm having trouble to make it boot from the harddrive, and I assume I probably just got the geometry wrong.
I built it from subversion (I assume this contains all the latest patches). I'm trying to install from the tape images from bitsavers (domain os 10.4), and the installation itself seems to go just fine, but when booting from harddrive I get "error: sysboot not found".
Rico
Jim Rees
May 13, 2012, 11:54:57 PM5/13/12
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I haven't installed from tape myself. I don't think it would be a
geometry problem, because sysboot lives entirely in the first track of
the disk, so shouldn't depend on geometry. But I could be wrong.
Besides which I think the geometry is hard coded into the device. It's
not in mess.ini as far as I can tell.
geometry problem, because sysboot lives entirely in the first track of
the disk, so shouldn't depend on geometry. But I could be wrong.
Besides which I think the geometry is hard coded into the device. It's
not in mess.ini as far as I can tell.
Jim Rees
May 14, 2012, 8:12:15 PM5/14/12
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Oh yeah, I don't think you want to build mess from svn, at least not
until 146 comes out. For now you want 144 plus the patch from the
Apollo Archive.
until 146 comes out. For now you want 144 plus the patch from the
Apollo Archive.
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