> On Dec 21, 2018, at 5:20 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 12/21/18 3:30 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> I’m afraid I’ll have to agree with Jim here. When talking about Retro >> Gaming, in most cases, the Raspberry Pi, while better than nothing, aren’t >> as good as the real thing, especially in regards to video and audio. > > There's nothing to be afraid of. > > I was asking from a position of ignorance because I've not used either. I > have some colleagues at work that use the Raspberry Pi. So I know of, but > not about, it.
The Raspberry Pi’s are a pretty impressive little tool for situations where they have enough resources. For the purpose of emulation, they’re a great platform. The problem is less with the Raspberry Pi, and more with emulation as a whole. In other words, this is a software issue, not a hardware issue. >> Now despite what I just said about the Raspberry Pi, I have three of them >> around here, one is a small VAX running OpenVMS 7.3, one is a DPS-8 running >> Multics, and the other a KL-10B running TOPS-20. I had dreams of building a >> VMS cluster of RPi 3+’s, but have kind of gone off that idea, due to the >> superior performance I get using my VMware Cluster to host VAX instances. > > I'll have to check out the DPS-8 and KL-10B. For the PDP-10, my favorite is KLH10. http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp10emu.html For the DPS-8, there really is only one option, and sadly GCOS-8 isn’t available, only Multics. Still it’s pretty cool to finally be able to use Multics, and it’s a lot more user friendly than GCOS-8 (I used to be a Systems Analyst at a DPS-8 mainframe site). http://www.avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/Honeywell_DPS-8.html For those unaware, my DEC Emulation pages had to move late last year, due to my ISP of ~20 years being ransacked by a Crook. I managed to do quite a bit of work updating the pages earlier this year. Zane
