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Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
reinhardtjh
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| Posted on April 15 2012 20:47 |
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Is there any free/hobbyist Alpha emulator out there that runs under Linux either 32 or 64 bit? The other thing is that it should allow a decent amount of memory. The typical 128MB doesn't cut it when playing with databases and other modern software.
John H. Reinhardt
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RE: Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
malmberg
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| Posted on April 16 2012 03:05 |
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There is one that is described as a work in progress. A search engine should easily come up with a link to it. It is my understanding that it can at least boot VMS.
I also saw a report of a commercial product that was in Beta, but I have not been tracking that. |
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RE: Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
MSpec
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| Posted on May 17 2012 01:20 |
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reinhardtjh wrote:
Is there any free/hobbyist Alpha emulator out there that runs under Linux either 32 or 64 bit? The other thing is that it should allow a decent amount of memory. The typical 128MB doesn't cut it when playing with databases and other modern software.
John H. Reinhardt
Hi!
Interesting to look at AlphaVM-free (http://emuvm.com/). It's up to 512Mb RAM to emulate (http://emuvm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=8). |
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RE: AlphaVM-free :: alpha emulator running under Linux |
m2-guy
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| Posted on June 14 2012 11:29 |
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the announcent says windows xp needed but the download page also offers a version of the emulator "AlphaVM-free" running under Linux:
http://emuvm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=6
it's a linux executable, see
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2012-06/msg00438.html
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/2011-05/msg00240.html
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RE: Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
bretb
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| Posted on June 15 2012 03:59 |
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I've been playing around with FreeAXP and I have a small Alpha VM running in that. If you haven't already checked that out it may do what you need. |
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RE: Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
MSpec
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| Posted on June 19 2012 04:00 |
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Hi, guys!
I found new AlphaVM-free 1.1.4 version for Linux on http://emuvm.com/ today.
Let's try it.
Edited by MSpec on July 12 2012 23:47 |
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RE: Alpha emulator for Linux 32/64 bit |
akhfar
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| Posted on June 28 2020 00:52 |
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is there any one who could provide an online download link AlphaVM-free linux, because i can't find it anywhere.... |
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malmberg
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| Posted on August 29 2020 09:23 |
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AlphaVM-free was discontinued a long time ago.
The only free Alpha emulator that seems to still exists is FreeAXP.
I could not get ES-40 to run on my Ubuntu system. It boots but crashes as soon as I try to install anything.
I see that QEMU claims alpha support. I do not know if anyone has been able to get VMS to boot on it.
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lenticularis
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| Posted on October 03 2020 03:06 |
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Hi everyone!
QEMU supports Alpha, but it uses a limited PALcode that AFAIK can run Linux only (and doesn't boot from firmware, but directly loads the kernel), so it's not possible to run OpenVMS on it.
ES-40 is actually not that bad, it only contains a few annoying bugs and another bunch of unfinished stuff. I've been working on a fork I named AXPbox (https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox) and as of now OpenVMS can be installed on it (https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox/wiki/OpenVMS-installation-guide), so you can try it. It still has a lot of problems, for example Ethernet is not working, so there's still a lot of work needed.
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