[Info-vax] Free Alpha emulators running under Linux ?

[Phil Howell]

On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 8:09:44 pm UTC+11, Simon Clubley wrote:
> At the moment, I run my home Alpha system on a FreeAXP instance 
> running under Windows. 
> 
> It would be nice to switch to running an Alpha emulator under Linux 
> while switching to the VSI version of Alpha VMS. 
> 
> What is the current state of play for free Alpha emulators running 
> under Linux ? 
> 
> When I last looked at this a number of years ago, the only Linux based 
> emulator I could find at the time was es40 and that wasn't very usable 
> at the time. 
> 
> There's some basic Alpha support in simh, but the last time I looked, 
> it was missing many of the features that would have made it a viable 
> full system emulator. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.

Check out the AXPBox wiki on the GitHub page
https://github-wiki-see.page/m/lenticularis39/axpbox/wiki
and these from Remy
https://raymii.org/s/blog/Installing_the_es40_AlphaServer_emulator_0.18_on_Ubuntu_16.04_and_trying_to_install_openVMS_8.4_on_es40.html#google_vignette
https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Installing_OpenVMS_8.4_Alpha_in_AXPbox_with_networking.html

Phil