Installing 32V on SIMH

This is the procedure that I have used to install 32v onto SIMH's vax 11/780 emulator. This is based on the work of Nao.

Requirements

You will need the following materials to put together a 32v installation:

• A compiled binary of vax780 from SIMH, along with the vmb.exe again from SIMH.
• A working copy of bzip2

You can download the starunix from nao's site

• http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/starunix.tar.bz2

Or you can download the tape image from sourceforge below:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsd42/files/Install%20tapes/32v/32v.tap.bz2/download

Preparing for installation

If you downloaded the tape image from sourceforge simply bzip2 -d the file, and we are almost ready to go... This is the 'prefered' way for windows users, as they would have to hunt for a copy of tar.

With the tape file extracted we can proceede to the installation.

Boot 1.

We are going to use the following config file to start the first phase of the installation. Save the following configuration into a file such as 'tboot.ini'. Since we are going to boot directly from the tape.

tboot.ini

set rq dis
set lpt dis
set rl dis
set hk dis
set rq dis
set rqb dis
set rqc dis
set rqd dis
set ry dis
set ts dis
set tq dis
set dz lines=8
set rp0 rp06
at rp0 rp06.disk
set tu0 te16
at tu0 32v.tape
D 30000 20009FDE
D 30004 D0512001
D 30008 3204A101
D 3000C C113C08F
D 30010 A1D40424
D 30014 008FD00C
D 30018 C1800000
D 3001C 8F320800
D 30020 10A1FE00
D 30024 00C139D0
D 30028 04c1d004
D 3002C 07e15004
D 30030 0000f750
go 30000
go 0

Booting the emulator

You then simply run the emulator and pass it the config file.

C:\temp\>vax780 tboot.ini