SIMH for Mac OS X

multi-system simulator

SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system simulator written by Bob Supnik.

Currently SIMH can simulate following ancient machines:

Data General Nova, Eclipse
Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX
GRI Corporation GRI-909
IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, System 3
Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
Hewlett-Packard 2116, 2100, 21MX
Honeywell H316/H516
MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
Scientific Data Systems SDS 940

SIMH is licensed under a modified X-Windows license. This license allows more or less unrestricted use of the sources and binaries.

More information about SIMH and software kits can be found at The Computer History Simulation Project.

Here you can find precompiled binaries of SIMH simulators for Mac OS X.

Warning: SIMH is set of command line tools and requires some experience with Terminal.app

Source code for version 3.8-0 can be found here. You can need it for documentation. Source code could be also downloaded from The Computer History Simulation Project.

Older versions of SIMH ca be found here

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