[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 169, Issue 2

Robert Thomas

2018-02-02 15:06:30 UTC

Just add a leading space as below:

998 FORMAT(1X,20A5)

TYPE is very old and was a non-standard form that only sent output to the console device.

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Robert F. Thomas

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:41:18 +0000
From: Lars Brinkhoff <***@nocrew.org>
To: Dave L <***@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game
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Been a long time since I wrote fortran but IIRC the first character on
the output line was to perform carriage-control of the LPT, so you'd
have to always have a leading pad character such as a space in order
to get the output lines to be correct. Some characters were reserved
actions, 1 = FF from memory. I've not looked at the code involved but
that'd be my first thoughts

Thanks. Since the SPEAK subroutine is only a few lines, I'll post it here. Maybe someone hows how TYPE, FORMAT(20A5), and FORMAT(/) work.

SUBROUTINE SPEAK(IT)
IMPLICIT INTEGER(A-Z)
COMMON RTEXT,LLINE
DIMENSION RTEXT(100),LLINE(1000,22)

KKT=RTEXT(IT)
IF(KKT.EQ.0)RETURN
999 TYPE 998, (LLINE(KKT,JJT),JJT=3,LLINE(KKT,2))
998 FORMAT(20A5)
KKT=KKT+1
IF(LLINE(KKT-1,1).NE.0)GOTO 999
997 TYPE 996
996 FORMAT(/)
RETURN
END

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:16:06 +0000
From: Vorländer, Martin <***@pdv-systeme.de>
To: 'SIMH' <***@trailing-edge.com>
Subject: Re: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation
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Zane,

just had a look at your Alpha page, and noticed that you missed an emulator:
FreeAXP / Avanti from Migration Specialties, http://www.migrationspecialties.com/
This is where the ES40 emulator went, AFAIK.

cu,
Martin

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Von: Simh [mailto:simh-***@trailing-edge.com] Im Auftrag von Zane Healy
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 05:56
An: SIMH <***@trailing-edge.com>
Betreff: [Simh] DEC Alpha Emulation

I'm in the process of slowly updating my DEC Emulation website, which has been largely stagnant since 2007. The first page I'm spending some significant time on is the DEC Alpha page, as I'm curious to see what the current options are. In reviewing things, I notice that Alpha emulation was worked on at some point for SIMH (probably around 2006). What is the current state of that work? I had a quick google, and the most popular hit seems to be mirrored copies of my site.

http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Alpha.html

Thanks,
Zane

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:12:04 +0000
From: Ken Cornetet <***@kimballelectronics.com>
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Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game
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I have vague recollections that FORMAT(/) prints a new line

Format(20A5) takes 20 elements of an array and prints them as character stings padded to a width of 5 characters.

"TYPE" is not standard fortran. That must have been a DEC extension. Standard fortran would have used "write".

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Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game