i dont think there is any physical hardware to test from left sept for maybe part of the front panel and a tape drive sitting in europe in museum and a couple random bit in some private collections
drawings theres some but not allot. most of the known documentation is in dutch and from what i understand i have the largest chunk of surviving documents in english https://imageshack.com/a/img924/4649/oyprpu.jpg https://imageshack.com/a/img922/9277/19TwCI.jpg https://imageshack.com/a/img922/9277/19TwCI.jpg managed to aquire unused core sheets with this stuff was a nice bonus have to get them framed at some point https://imageshack.com/a/img922/841/kTGEiY.jpg ill give those sites a look On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:44 AM, Eric Christopherson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Ray Arachelian via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On 02/19/18 19:36, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > > > whats invovled in makin an emulator? > > > i have a chunk of stuff for the phillips p1000 > > > > Quite a lot actually. A single CPU system is difficult enough, but a > > mainframe might be much, much harder. The idea to use an existing > > emulator framework, such as SIMH, is a great one. > > > > Ray, you've provided a few really excellent messages here. > > [snip] > > > Are you planning on emulating the whole machine, or just the userland? > > Might be easier to create a simulation of the OS in software on the host > > side the way that Executor did with MacOS - Cliff implemented his own > > version of MacOS 7.x, enough to be able to run most applications of that > > era, but not all. see: https://github.com/ctm/executor.git and > > https://github.com/ctm/executor.git - some of this is called "High Level > > Emulation" and is sort of what WINE does (though wine isn't an emulator). > > > > You put the same URL in twice there; did you intend for another URL? > > I was quite a fan of Executor. It's cool to see that it's open source now. > > > > Be careful > > as there's a lot of "emu scene" folks out there with tons of free time, > > more than you might have, who will happily promise to help, but instead > > take your documentation, firmware, OS images, etc. and compete with you > > behind your back just to get there first, instead of actually helping > > you with your project. On this latter point, I sadly speak from > > experience. > > > > Wow, I didn't know about that. Good to know. > > -- > Eric Christopherson >
