Visual C++ 2005 project & exe’s for SIMH 3.7-3

I’ve uploaded onto the sourceforge site, my project source & the resulting exe’s

I need to see which compiler generates the faster exe, and ship with that going forward for the win32 platform. I suspect its VC2005, but the race is going to be between VC2005, gcc/mingw, Watcom 11.

Of course if anyone want’s to suggest another C compiler for win32, I could always try it out, and see how it performs.

Of course today is 9/11… It’s hard to believe that it’s been 6 years. One can only hope the madness will end.

4.2BSD on Windows!

Recently I’ve taken it upon myself to update the sourceforge pages for SIMH. In the process of building platform EXE’s for people and whatnot, I’ve decided to try to make some of the more popular Operating Systems easier to use for the Windows users.

From what I’ve seen of the downloads the Windows users are the largest group, then followed by OSX. I’ve actually seen 2x more downloads for NeXTSTEP than Linux/i386… But I suspect it’s an advertising thing if anything else.

So inorder to make 4.2BSD more accessable to the end user I have spent a day with NSIS, and created an install package.

You can now download 4.2BSD in an easy to use EXE here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204974&package_id=245145&release_id=538195

As I write this the current version is listed as v0.1a . I fixed a few annoying bugs, however I wanted to push out a release before I went to sleep.

What I have tried to do here, is seperate the user data, from the Operating System. By doing this a novice can quickly repair the OS, but re-installing the os component from a windows installer. Currently this NSIS script doesn’t support repairs, so to do it cleanly you must uninstall 4.2BSD, doing so will give you the options of preserving your OS & Home disks. If the OS is trashed, simply allow it to remove the OS, but retain the home disk. Then re-install the application, and uncheck the home disk. This will preserve the one in place.

I’ve also included a copy of putty to give a better tty experence to the end user. I’m thinking about changing this so that the console is brought up with putty.

At any rate, if anyone thinks something along these lines is a good tool, let me know!

Simh 3.7-3 released!

Hope you had a good holiday, Bob has published a new update to SIMH!

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

On a related note, I’ve been able to get a few to compile for the iPhone, but they have fread errors… I’m not sure what’s going on so I’m going to try to adapt the disk access to sqllite (it’s part of the base os on the iPhones!) kind of like my .net ‘updates’ to simh.

I really need to put all these things somewhere…

Well at anyrate I think I’ll try to build a NLM for the 1 remaning Netware user out there.. And to check portability.