AI is that second set of eyes. Out googles google and cuts down on searching for obscure stuff. I can't complain about paying $20 a month to openai so I don't get the dreaded "come back in 8 hrs" message. It's the only sub I have. Jim
On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 11:30 AM John Foust via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > With my new friend Claude, I've advanced the state of Terak emulation. > Working from Sergey Svishchev ("Shattered")'s fork of Open-SIMH, > we added support for double-density QB disk images and made > a number of other improvements. > > We built a Python GUI for the emulator, making it easy to set the > volumes in the drives. Handles Terak, RT-11, UNIX V6. > Handles logical and physical sector layouts. > > There's a disk browser and catalog system, recursively indexes > your folders of disk images, lets you add notes to disks and folders, > pictures of disk labels, rebuilds a static HTML version of the > catalog. Lets you easily find files, helps distinguish between > versions of files and where they are, looks inside p-System > libraries, has a p-Code disassembler, a p-System text viewer, > a CHARSET viewer, can view various Terak bitmap image formats like FOTO > and IMAGE, handles the MOVIE format, handles the vector renderings > from disks I got from Paul Haeberli. Saves things as PNG, MP4 or > SVG as appropriate. There's a movie recorder to save your full > interactive emulated session, too. There's an octal / hex viewer, > a dump as numbers tool, a "strings" tool, a dumper / disassembler > for p-Code, PDP-11, RT-11, and a.out / .o / .a . > > There's an emulated Printronix P300 printer with graphics on the serial port. > Sound works, both beep and PCM. There's an emulated GSW / Plato music box > for the one demo disk on Bitsavers. > > Along the way, Claude rediscovered a floating point bug that lived in > Supnik's SIMH from 2004 until 2023, but that hadn't been folded into > Sergey's fork. > > I suspect Dave Plummer of YouTube's "Dave's Garage," (1.15M subscribers) > will be talking about Teraks soon, as he recently received a working one > and a spare from Prof. Tim Teitelbaum of Cornell. > > I have not yet put it on the Github, but if you'd like a peek, > send me an email. > > - John > https://www.threedee.com/jcm/ > "Geek Site of the Day" October 16, 1996 >
