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Public release of the Inmos Transputer VBC emulators for the macOS.
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Gavin Crate
Dec 31, 2020, 10:29:47 AM12/31/20
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Hi comp.sys.transputer!
Just to let you all know that I've released the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulators for the macOS on my website. See:
https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
It should be a simple task of downloading the file, unzipping it and then storing the executable file in the following location on your Mac:
/usr/local/bin/
Have fun!
Gavin
Just to let you all know that I've released the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulators for the macOS on my website. See:
https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
It should be a simple task of downloading the file, unzipping it and then storing the executable file in the following location on your Mac:
/usr/local/bin/
Have fun!
Gavin
Gavin Crate
Mar 19, 2021, 11:57:53 AM3/19/21
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Hi all,
As promised, I've uploaded both 32-bit & 64-bit macOS builds of the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulator on my website. See link below for details:
https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
Have fun!
Gavin
As promised, I've uploaded both 32-bit & 64-bit macOS builds of the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulator on my website. See link below for details:
https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
Have fun!
Gavin
Chris Hanson
Apr 13, 2021, 2:00:01 AM4/13/21
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On 3/19/21 8:57 AM, Gavin Crate wrote:
> As promised, I've uploaded both 32-bit & 64-bit macOS builds of the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulator on my website. See link below for details:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
Thanks for taking this on! Do you have the source up on GitHub or
> As promised, I've uploaded both 32-bit & 64-bit macOS builds of the Inmos T414/T425/T800 Transputer VBC emulator on my website. See link below for details:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/transputeremulator/Home/vbc-emulator
anyplace like that?
-- Chris
Chris Hanson
Apr 14, 2021, 5:04:45 PM4/14/21
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Gavin replied, but I don't think it made it through to the newsgroup:
> I’m glad you are making use of the macOS version of the Tx VBC
emulator. I’m sorry to say that the source code is not available for
public release.
>
> If you find any issues running the emulator on the Mac please let me
know and I’ll attempt to fix them.
That's unfortunate, why can't you share the code? It looked like it was
based on previous open source effort, which is why I was hoping it would
be available.
I'm not using your binary releases because I prefer to build things like
this myself, and to run them on my NetBSD and Linux systems. I don't
think there's much to be gained from keeping emulators closed for stuff
discontinued 25+ years ago. (Though I do quite understand other
circumstances, I have changes to projects I can't release without
permission from my employer...)
-- Chris
> I’m glad you are making use of the macOS version of the Tx VBC
emulator. I’m sorry to say that the source code is not available for
public release.
>
> If you find any issues running the emulator on the Mac please let me
know and I’ll attempt to fix them.
That's unfortunate, why can't you share the code? It looked like it was
based on previous open source effort, which is why I was hoping it would
be available.
I'm not using your binary releases because I prefer to build things like
this myself, and to run them on my NetBSD and Linux systems. I don't
think there's much to be gained from keeping emulators closed for stuff
discontinued 25+ years ago. (Though I do quite understand other
circumstances, I have changes to projects I can't release without
permission from my employer...)
-- Chris
Gavin Crate
Apr 15, 2021, 3:24:06 AM4/15/21
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Hello Chris et. all,
There are two versions of transputer emulator available on my website. The first is the jserver emulator which is a highly modified version of Julian Highfield's original T414 transputer emulator, supporting T414, T425 and T800 processors and multi-processor support. The second is the T414 / T425 / T800 VBC emulator which is re-written from the ground up by my very own hands, using the ucode code I extracted from the REAL transputers.
The source code for these two projects are not available for public release, only the execute code. These emulators (in particular the jserver) have been available for many years to the transputer community for free use.
If you want source code then Andras Pahia has a working version of Julian Highfield's original code supporting both T4 and T8 emulation. See https://github.com/pahihu/t4
Regards
Gavin
There are two versions of transputer emulator available on my website. The first is the jserver emulator which is a highly modified version of Julian Highfield's original T414 transputer emulator, supporting T414, T425 and T800 processors and multi-processor support. The second is the T414 / T425 / T800 VBC emulator which is re-written from the ground up by my very own hands, using the ucode code I extracted from the REAL transputers.
The source code for these two projects are not available for public release, only the execute code. These emulators (in particular the jserver) have been available for many years to the transputer community for free use.
If you want source code then Andras Pahia has a working version of Julian Highfield's original code supporting both T4 and T8 emulation. See https://github.com/pahihu/t4
Regards
Gavin
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