GW-BASIC VS simh

Compare GW-BASIC vs simh and see what are their differences.

GW-BASIC

Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983, with MASM or JWasm • "pre-release" binaries at https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC/releases • source mirror of https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC • fork of https://github.com/dspinellis/GW-BASIC (by tkchia)
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GW-BASIC simh
1 39
79 1,609
- 0.9%
1.7 9.0
over 1 year ago 25 days ago
Assembly C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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GW-BASIC

Posts with mentions or reviews of GW-BASIC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.
  • Microsoft GW-Basic Interpreter Source Code
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2022
    There are forked versions which have been made somewhat to work. [1] [2] The original version (the linked article) won't work as-is, since there are no build scripts, instructions, or executables.

    [1] https://github.com/dspinellis/GW-BASIC

    [2] https://github.com/tkchia/GW-BASIC

simh

Posts with mentions or reviews of simh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-29.
  • SIMH – Old Computer Emulator
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
    It sounds like there was a config option available to disable the signature addition to the image file ( https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1059#issuecomment-108689... ). I could see a benefits for having an embedded image signature for preservation and corruption detection issues.

    I don't think complaining about the design is toxic, but recruiting uninvolved people on twitter, and harassing out of ban certainly is. Also reading the bug thread it seems the person with the issue wasn't the same as the one who instigated the harasment. (https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1059#issuecomment-108675...)

  • Multics Simulator
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2023
    Perhaps, however, SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/, https://opensimh.org/) also calls itself a simulator rather than an emulator. Six of one, half dozen of the other, I guess!
  • Mystery? Of the few 1968 Honeywell Kitchen (Pedestal )Computers built, where are they now?
    1 project | /r/thisweekinretro | 25 May 2023
  • Winner of the lookalike contest
    1 project | /r/controlgame | 23 May 2023
    You can get emulators for the machine: SIMH
  • How many platforms do you deal with?
    1 project | /r/PLC | 2 May 2023
  • Anyone know how to attach a network device to a simulated VAX in simh?
    1 project | /r/linuxmint | 5 Apr 2023
    I looked into this recently too, given the large amount of instructions at https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/0readme_ethernet.txt I decided it was too much bother for now.
  • Pico_1140: A PDP11/40 emulator that will run Unix v5/v6 on a Raspberry Pi Pico
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023
    In case anyone was wondering:

    > The de facto emulator for most old computers is Simh https://github.com/simh/simh. The size and complexity of the individual machine apps is such that a direct port to a memory limited system is not feasible.

  • GCC gets a new frontend for Rust
    6 projects | /r/programming | 26 Feb 2023
    VAX has its die hard fans, and the historical value of the VAX and what it did to shape our computing world can't be overstated. As both a learning tool and a way to preserve history, simh and VAX emulation are wonderfully accessible. VAX running modern NetBSD does an excellent job illustrating where performance regressions happen and where bad assumptions are made. None of these are compelling reasons to target a new toolchain to a classic architecture by themselves, but the interest is there.
  • Zork compiled from MDL source code
    2 projects | /r/PDP10 | 22 Feb 2023
    A long time ago you posted a suggestion in the original SIMH GitHub as an issue to have Interlan NI1010A added. https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/380
  • The IBM 701
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/simh/simh

    Richard Cornwell has implemented the IBM 701, IBM 704, IBM 7010/1410, IBM 7070/7074, IBM 7080/702/705/7053 and IBM 7090/7094/709/704 simulators.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GW-BASIC and simh you can also consider the following projects:

tashtalk - An interface for Apple's LocalTalk networking protocol.

AppleWin - Apple II emulator for Windows

windows

ISA_8bitNetwork_8019 - 8bit ISA NE2000-compatible network card based on the RTL8019AS chip

8bc - B compiler for the PDP-8

unzx0_x86 - Free, zlib licensed ZX0 decompressor for the x86

GW-BASIC - The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

Pico_1140 - A PDP11/40 emulator that will run Unix v5/6

GW-BASIC - Assembling Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983

Arduino - Arduino IDE 1.x