Re: [Rcxemul-discussion] simulator

[Jochen H. <Hoe...@In...>]

Hello Stef,

> hi Jochen,
> 
> it's a pitty that I'm a windows user and can not see what you've produced.
> I'm very interested, so let me know when you've some screenshots on a 
> website !

There's a small hello world screenshot on the webpage now.  It doesn't
look very impressive, but if you consider that a standard brickOS
kernel and helloworld.lx were uploaded to the device via the simulated
infrared communication there is a lot going on behind the scenes.

> I've build a "logical" simulator that has the RCX with standard firmware 
> as a device. Users can add any device to the simulator by building a DLL 
> in any language they like. I'm programming for windows, otherwise we 
> maybe could merge,( I only support standard firmware)

I think it shouldn't be too hard to port to windows.  It uses sockets
to communicate with firmdl, the tcl/tk GUI, and the debugger.  And it
uses one select call to check for input and sleep.  Everything else
should work without modifications under windows.

I wonder whether the concepts match.  To simulate in real time I count
the cycles and each peripheral can request to be woken up after a
specified amount of cycles.  If I understand the description of SAL it
gives every device for each cycle the chance to do some calculations.

  Jochen

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