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OG Xbox Forums => Software Forums => Development => Topic started by: BillyT2003 on April 15, 2005, 11:51:00 AM
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If anyone will write a working port of either of these two projects or a MESSoX port, then I will pay them $100 per project to their Paypal account. That is $100 for a working Tandy Color Computer emulator, $100 for a port of SIMH, or $100 for a port of MESS. Up to $300 for all three. Of course these emulators should also be able to use a keyboard plugged into the XBOX using USB as you will not be able to do a lot with any of these emulators with just a game controller. And, a proper beta test should be conducted to ensure stability of said emulator of which I volunteer my testing services. Payment will be made using Paypal at the completion of the project.
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1. A Tandy Color Computer emulator. Jeff Vavasour has many Tandy TRS-80 computer based emulators available complete with source code at the following web link:
Jeff Vavasour's TRS-80 EMULATION Page
His coco 3 emulator would be the coolest one to have implemented on the XBOX. You would of course need the correct ROMs from the original machine to run the emulator, but I own two coco 3's, and have downloaded the roms from them and would be more than happy to supply any necessary coco 3 ROMs to a potential developer for the purposes of emulator development, if they needed them. There are also many archives of color computer games out there that have been released to the public domain. I believe Dungeon's of Daggorath is one of them. I own a copy of Downland and have downloaded the image of that from the cartrige I have for it and have brought that image up in Jeff's emulator and played it. There is also a Coco collection compilation CDROM available for sale which contains many of the original Coco games on it.
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2. SIMH, which is a project that has source code available. SIMH implements simulators for:
Data General Nova, Eclipse
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX
GRI Corporation GRI-909
IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, System 3
Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
Hewlett-Packard 2116, 2100, 21MX
Honeywell H316/H516
MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
Scientific Data Systems SDS 940
You can even use it to run PDP-1 SpaceWar. It's a very cool emulator. I use it to run ETOS under OS/8 on an emulated PDP-8. The project is by Bob Supnik and is available at the following web link:
SIMH - The Computer History Simulation Project