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udo-munk / z80pack

A Zilog Z80 and Intel 8080 systems emulation
MIT License
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altairsim: very hard to click on switches #263

Open Selorax opened 1 year ago

Selorax commented 1 year ago

I don't know what's wrong with it, but it's very hard to point the mouse to click the switches. And overall, the experience with Altair seems to be worse than even in web sim.

Also, can you recommend a better Altair emulator with front panel?

udo-munk commented 1 year ago

The point to click the switches is close to the holes, if found once it is easy. No I cannot recommend a better Altair emulator because this is the best one.

Selorax commented 1 year ago

Online simulator makes the switch toggle when you click on labels such as RUN, STOP and so on, maybe you could do the same? Maybe it is because the touchpad I have or something, but it was really hard to toggle the switches in Altair sim unlike say imsai from same package. I think it would be nice to increase the detection area to at least include entire labels around the bidirectional switches

@udo-munk depends on the features. Online sim from https://www.s2js.com/altair/sim.html provides better toggle response and sounds, but only has 256 bytes of RAM (or at least that many show up in the dropdown) and only can simulate entire instruction, instead of clock cycles, so doesn't say show RAM access by ldax d, which is used in kill the bit game from here ...