Too bad it is utterly broken on Win32, Win64, OS X platforms.
I guess it was fun while it lasted, but my enthusiasm for this emulator is basically all gone now.  I know they were screwed over with the changes from GCC 3.x to 4.x, but the 1.x versions move to GLIB not only destroyed their performance, but made it incredibly difficult to build.
Oh well.
and my BBS is still running in Egypt.
ping bbs
PING egypt.superglobalmegacorp.com (41.223.53.17): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 41.223.53.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=42 time=340.746 ms
64 bytes from 41.223.53.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=319.177 ms
Well at least they haven’t turned the internet off. Â Hopefully this time, things will work out better.
Destroy him, my robots!
I always loved the synthesized voice in this game, which was pretty amazing for a lowly machine like the Commodore 64.  Although I never did beat this game, the sequel was far more easier.
Check out this javascript version here.
 (note this is a guest post from Tenox)
Lately I’ve been very busy with several projects and noticed Aclock was lacking love for quite a while. For those who don’t know Aclock is a tiny C application that a small number of trusted volunteers and myself have been compiling to run on as many computer platforms as possible. The number of unique binaries is approaching 200 but is still short by few. As summer time sets in, some more fortunate of you will get extra free time, so I’m calling for volunteers to help to bring the gap and possibly go beyond.
Additionally I see more people looking for some particular operating system or piece of software and unfortunately nothing new for me to trade for and the gap is ever growing. Here is a chance to trade your time for some otherwise unavailable pieces from my collection. 😉
Here is a list of most wanted builds:
Operating system are mostly available. For some I will supply the OS. For others you will know what to look for. Whats required is your time and determination.
Some house keeping rules. I’m looking for a large amount of platforms (CPU+OS combination) and not multiple versions of the same OS. Generally if you can compile for OS version 1 and this binary works through v2 and v3 I would prefer version 1. Only if the OS has changed dramatically between versions I would want to get a separate binary. Secondly I’m currently NOT looking to get aclock ported to language other than C. So if a particular operating system doesn’t have C comparator, I’m not interested.
If you decide to work on any of this please let me know ahead of time.
I’m always interested in more screenshots and pictures of aclock running on various terminals and windowing systems.
Manuals, ads, news letters, magazines and the like?
Well check out bombjack.org
Network world, did a nice obit.
Seems we are crossing into the era where all the people who made the world what it is today are passing onward.
Well it does compile somewhat easily, but after some disk access, it just deadlocks. It didn’t matter if it was writeback, writethrough, or none, it just deadlocks.
Deadlocked Qemu 1.5.0 on OS X
Such a shame. Â But I thought I’d at least keep the world up to date.
$ cc -v
Apple clang version 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-421.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0
Thread model: posix
$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin11
Configured with: /private/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2336.11~28/src/configure –disable-checking –enable-werror –prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2 –mandir=/share/man –enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ –program-prefix=llvm- –program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ –with-slibdir=/usr/lib –build=i686-apple-darwin11 –enable-llvm=/private/var/tmp/llvmgcc42/llvmgcc42-2336.11~28/dst-llvmCore/Developer/usr/local –program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin11- –host=x86_64-apple-darwin11 –target=i686-apple-darwin11 –with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
And something like this….
libiconv-1.14.tar.gz
pkg-config-0.18.1
gettext-0.18.1.1
glib-2.30.2
glib-2.33.2
libffi-3.0.4
libiconv-1.14
I know it is mostly meaningless but Qemu 1.2.0/1.2.2 build & work fine for me.
Although I haven’t gone through this yet, I need to get some different video cables, and perhaps a monitor for my Mac Pro which has my VMWare stuff on it. Although at the same time as a past cube owner, I’m really digging the new Mac Pro design. I guess it all comes down to me finding a job in HK.
The best part about this, is that it was located by a READER. As much as I try to do everything myself, believe it or not, user contributions go a long long way. And I am greatly appreciative of it. I do need to setup my exchange server..
Anyways for the two or three people who dig this kind of thing, here is the old NetBSD 0.8 archive dump.
Enjoy!
So I was able to get a working qemu 1.5.0 on win32. but it is so slow it really is unusable.
there is still an issue with core-routinewin32, so that has to be built with O1 optimizations, but the disk access is horrifically slow. I’ll have to see how to profile gcc code, but any write disk access spikes the CPU to 100%, and drags the whole thing down.
Oh yeah, gcc 4.6.2
I’ll have to see if my semi-broken win32 build environment can kick something out that is usable….
maybe it’ll work with gcc 4.7??
*”QEMU is now a lot faster on Windows hosts than in previous versions”
