Other

There are some emulators, which I have not looked at, which perhaps will be looked at at some other time. Emulators I know of, which I didn't try yet:
(mostly taken from the emulator FAQ )
(for the last one have a look at the following link http://homepage.seas.upenn.edu/~museum/sim.html
there is some information available, as well as some emulator talk...) Other information can be found in the emulators FAQ.


I recieved an email concerning some of the above mentioned computers/emulators. I think it worth putting to public:
...
Btw, the emulators marked as "Other"... You're right, most of the
machines there are quite obscure, but also extremely important:

PDP-11: a piece of history if there ever was one (massive, ugly piece
        of history at that). The machine Unix was written for. You'll
        also find emulators for other PDP machines, mainly the PDP-8
        which was used as a home 'micro' in 'later' years (later
        meaning middle to late seventies). Someone wrote that there
        was an actual flight simulator for that beastie. It only
        printed out numbers; you pressed buttons and got more numbers
        to show your position, speed, accelearation and what have you.

Sam Coupe: Failed ZX-Spectrum clone. Actually, it had quite good
        hardware (it was a superset of the Speccy with a disk drive
        and nice sound), but they really took their time designing it
        (plus they announced the machine almost a year before it
        appeared on the market).

ENIAC: That was the first one. Ever. 50 years ago, I think. I've seen
        the emulator, and it's quite annoying in the sense that I
        really don't want to learn how to program that beast.

Altair 8800: Remember War Games? The guy had an IMSAI 8080, the
        Altair's greatest enemy (they were quite similar in CPUs and
        features). Big, square, heavy etc, but nice for its time.
        Sported the first ever Microsoft (then called Micro Soft)
        program as well: MS Basic, a beast that needed 4k RAM to run
        (people have been griping MS about memory hungry software
        since the mid-seventies!), written by Bill Gates himself.
        Actually, most of the later home micros had almost exact
        copies of this BASIC interpreter.



Right... I'm a nutter as well (as is obvious from the crap above). I
even keep a Web page with loads of old machines, at

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~axc/MACHINE-ROOM

There's info on some of these machines with pictures of them...

BTW: I think his http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~axc/MACHINE-ROOM page is excellent, if you are at all interested in those old day computer stuff this is a place you'd better visit...
New
MINITEL Emulator
Well this certainly is no computer! I stumbled over it while 'surfing'. Since it is some kind of emulator I included here, not in the main section. And I sort of seriously doubt that anybody is all that interested. OK, there is a French WWW page for it, if interested look at:
http://www.minitel.fr
There are emulators available for Windows and UNIX (Linux), I didn't exactly look very hard at it, didn't even try it (what sould I do within French Network?). I only provide a link to the windows version, try:
http://www.minitel.fr/winmin22.exe
If you can't get it to work look at the above mentioned page, there are some passwords that are needed (I think...)

BTW.
Someone just asked me about Postscript emulation. I know about two. FREEDOM (DOS commercial), Ghostscript (some platforms). Does anybody think it worth while including them? If so I would appreciate some links to information sources and/or other emulators (interpreters that would be).

BSVC
                          Distribution Announcement
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

BSVC is a microprocessor simulation framework written in C++ and Tcl/Tk.
It was developed as a senior design project at North Carolina State
University by Bradford W. Mott.  Since its original development many
professors and students have found BSVC to be a useful tool in courses
based on the Motorola 68000.  It has also been used as a starting point
for other senior design projects.

BSVC was originally written for Unix, however, it has been ported to 
Windows 95.  The Windows 95 version has the same features as the Unix
version except the Motorola 68000 simulator does not support the M68681
Dual UART.

The BSVC distribution contains the following:

  * Motorola 68000 simulator & assembler (Supports the M68681 Dual UART)

  * BSVC Graphical User Interface (written in Tcl/Tk)

  * BSVC Simulator Framework (C++ classes)
...
For further information please look at its homepage:
http://www2.ncsu.edu/eos/service/ece/project/bsvc/www/
Or have a look at it directly via link:
file://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bsvc/distribution/bsvc-2.0-src.tar.z (linux)
file://ftp.eos.ncsu.edu/pub/bsvc/distribution/bsvc-2.0-win32.exe (windows 95)

Turing Machines
Well, every computer science student (and many others) know about them. There are a couple of them available. I haven't looked all that hard for them yet. So I'll provide just one as yet... .

Homepage:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerald_Pienkowski/turinge.htm
Link to binary:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gerald_Pienkowski/turing.zip

By the way, there is a very interesting page about Allan Turing:
http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/%7Eahodges/Turing.html

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Last Updated: 25. August 1996 Malban