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Mesa machine architecture emulator for Xerox 6085 and Guam workstations
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Tested on OS X and ... #1

Open LeDidje opened 6 years ago

LeDidje commented 6 years ago

... works as a charm:

great job and congratulations for your job and many thanks to share your job

Didier

devhawala commented 6 years ago

Hello,

to be honest, i did not expect that anybody would discover Dwarf and use it. But i'm glad to have a "satisfied customer" :-) (BTW: how did you find Dwarf in the huge internet?)

I hope that Dwarf is useful to you, meaning you have some interesting data or programs on your Dwan or GlobalView disks. Without a running XNS Server (clearinghouse, filing) or Mesa development tools (compiler, binder, interfaces etc.) those things are pretty useless.

While developing the software, bringing XDE or GlobalView to boot and to work somehow normally was the driving force to continue working on it. Now that this part is done and there is no chance to do meaningful things with these OSes (not having the things mentioned above, left alone that Dwarf does not have a working xns network device, but what for without servers?), the thrill is gone, to cite a very good musician: B.B. King. I will have to find an other thing to devote my time for.

May be findling a bit with the Mesa environment for the Alto, using the ContrAlto emulator.

Greetings from Berlin Hans

PS: as the only documented Dwarf user, are there things you are missing or would need in the emulator?

LeDidje commented 6 years ago

Hi Hans

I find Dwarf by reading your « issue » on YOKWE mesa-emulator and … « follow the money » clic on the poster name to see your profile and find the graal !!! that’s all.

By the past i was a GV user and very enthusiast by this system. i can use it without any training, producing amazing reports for my job. it was a long time ago !!! One day looking for information about mesa i found Dwan. but never really play with it, lack of information about XDE.

There is a dead link on Don’s website about a « synopsis » of the XDE. By chance the web have a memory…

Did you know this link ?

https://web.archive.org/web/20061016090203/http://www.apearson.f2s.com/xde.html#teach

My goal was to port Dawn to OS X and after finding YOKWE, the idea was to write my own Mesa VM in swift.

Et Voilà a short story about my quest.

I have some requests :

bests regards from Pyrénées

Didier

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Hello,

to be honest, i did not expect that anybody would discover Dwarf and use it. But i'm glad to have a "satisfied customer" :-) (BTW: how did you find Dwarf in the huge internet?)

I hope that Dwarf is useful to you, meaning you have some interesting data or programs on your Dwan or GlobalView disks. Without a running XNS Server (clearinghouse, filing) or Mesa development tools (compiler, binder, interfaces etc.) those things are pretty useless.

While developing the software, bringing XDE or GlobalView to boot and to work somehow normally was the driving force to continue working on it. Now that this part is done and there is no chance to do meaningful things with these OSes (not having the things mentioned above, left alone that Dwarf does not have a working xns network device, but what for without servers?), the thrill is gone, to cite a very good musician: B.B. King. I will have to find an other thing to devote my time for.

May be findling a bit with the Mesa environment for the Alto, using the ContrAlto emulator.

Greetings from Berlin Hans

PS: as the only documented Dwarf user, are there things you are missing or would need in the emulator?

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devhawala commented 6 years ago

Hello Didier,

i just committed an update allowing to configure the modifier key for generating the special xerox key, see the new configuration parameter "xeroxControlKeyCode" (for your purposes, the additional configuration line would be: xeroxControlKeyCode = VK_META). [your 3rd request]

Talking about keyboard configuration: your Mac OS X system has probably a (hardware) mouse only a single key, so it is difficult to produce a 2- or 3-button (emulated) mouse. Maybe you can map some real keyboard keys to the xerox keys "Point" (left mouse key), "Adjust" (right mouse key) and "Menu" (middle mouse key). [2nd request]

For your other requests:

Your link was interesting: i did not know it, but i remember having used these lessons about 30 years ago :-)

As you want to build a mesa emulator for Mac OS X, you may want look at https://github.com/gcasa/Mesa, which seems to be a port of Dawn to Mac OS X. However, if you have questions about mesa emulation stuff, may be i can answer... :-)

Regards, Hans

devhawala commented 4 years ago

Hello Didier,

just a short note to inform you that the new Dwarf version just committed also supports the 8-bit color mode for the display, so GVWin can now be used both in black&white and in color mode (256 colors).

(should you still be interested in Xerox GVWin emulation...)

Regards, Hans

AlKossow commented 3 years ago

I think I just found the missing Installer #1 disk for the VP 2.0 set. Pushed it to bitsavers, and rearranged the files there by release. Sadly, no sign of the missing 1.x floppies.

AlKossow commented 3 years ago

XGV-PC disk image set should be uploaded soon