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This is an emulator for the HP9816 desktop workstation that was based on an 8MHz Motorola 68000 processor. It was released in 1982 and was the first affordable computational workstation with three progamming environments: Basic, HPL and Pascal. This project is aimed at providing these excellent pre-mouse era programming environments on a modern linux machine for retrocomputing enthusiasts.
When the emulator is Run initially it executes the boot rom which will search for an operating system to boot from the disks after a lengthy memory test. To associate a disk image with a drive click on the drive icon Unit N corresponding to the drive model you have an image for and load the appropriate disk image. Disk image files have the .hpi suffix and can be created using Ansgar Kuekes' hpdir utility. For example to create a disk image for a 7911 drive:
A sample disk image file for a 7908 drive is provided in the repo: dmpas.hpi You can load it by clicking on the 7908 Unit 0 button on the right hand panel. It contains a number of operating systems. By default it will boot into Pascal 1P SYSTEM_P. Note the dmpas.hpi disk image has been configured with 4 soft partitions. hpdir can only access the first partition.
