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emu803 LOCAL emu803

emu803
Elliott 803 emulator

emu803 [-V] command_file [file ...]

emu803 [-i] [-e command_file]

The emu803 is an emulator for the Elliott 803 Computer. It emulates all arithmetic and logic operations and some of the peripherals.

A single script may be specified using the -e option.

The following options are available:

Display the program version on stdout and exit.
Enter interactive mode after all commands have been processed, this is the default if no other arguments are specified.
command_file
Append the commands commands found in the file command_file to the list of commands to be executed at startup. The commands must each be listed on a separate line.

The output window is selected by using one of the function keys listed below:

[F1] Punch 1
Display the output of Punch 1 using Elliott to UTF-8 conversion.

[F2] Punch 1
Display the output of Punch 2 using Elliott to UTF-8 conversion.

[F3] Teleprinter
Display the output of the teleprinter Elliott to UTF-8 conversion.

[F4] Console
Display the results of console commands.

The following commands can be typed in the console window. Output is only visible if the Console Window [F4] is selected.

help
 
()?
Display the list of console commands.

exit
 
(x)
Exit emulation.

list [ADDR [COUNT]]
 
(l)
Display “COUNT” memory words starting at “ADDR”

mw ADDR CODE|±DEC
Write memory word to “ADDR”

reset
Reset all registers and stop execution.

reset run
Reset all registers and restart from location zero.

run [ADDR]
start running from “ADDR” or continue after a stop.

stop
Stop execution.

regs
 
(r)
Display registers and and current execution status.

hello [ADDR [1|2|3]]
Load a simple hello world machine code program [4096 1]

reader 1|2 [MODE] FILE
Attach an existing file to a reader. Default mode is hex5.

punch 1|2 [MODE] FILE
Create a new file and attach to a punch. Default mode is hex5.

wg [msb|o2l|lsb|CODE|±N]
Set or display word generator.

wait N
Wait up to N seconds or for either a stop condition or for word generator polling.

screen 1|2|3|4
Switch screen (as F1…F4) for use in scripts

The following environment variables affect the execution of emu803:
A colon separated string of directories that are searches for tape files for the “reader” command.
The locale to use when for curses output must be set to UTF-8 to support the wide characters used in this program. See environ(7) for more information.
The terminal specified need to be one that is supported by the wide character version of the ncurses library.

The emu803 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Load the internal machine code hello program:
reset
hello
screen 1
run 4096

Load the demo Algol60 hello program:

reset
reader 1 a104-tape-1.hex5
reset run
wait 5
reader 1 a104-tape-2.hex5
wg +0
wait 5
reader 1 elliott hello.a60
wg -1
wait 5
screen 3
wg +0

Load the demo H-Code hello program:

reset
reader 1 h-code-compiler.hex5
reset run
wait 5
reader 1 elliott hello.hc
run 512
wait 5
screen 1
run 513

ncurses(3), environ(7)

Christopher Hall hsw@ms2.hinet.net

Function 56 “Divide A/AR by N” is not fully tested and its overflow conditions is not likely to be correct. Currently it will only overflow on division by zero.

The plotter is not implemented.

The Film Handlers are not implemented.

The teleprinter input is not implemented.

2020-04-25 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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