Emulith

Emulith is a functional emulation of the ETH Lilith Modula2 Medos  computer. Its is programmed by Jos Dreesen, owner of one of the few remaining operational Lilith’s.

The Lilith emulator Emulith is a functional equivalent of the actual Lilith hardware, uses unchanged microcode and disk images of the real machine and gives a reasonable good idea of what the real Lilith looks like. High resolution display, cartridge disk, mouse and keyboard are all part of the emulation. Not covered (yet ?) are RS232, Ethernet and printer interface.
The following hardware and software is needed to run Emulith :

    • A reasonable fast PC ( > 1 GHz) running Linux. Ubuntu is fine, even the Live cD.
    • Minimal screen resolution of 1280×1024 ( The Lilith itself has a 704×928 resolution).
    • Some willingness to read documentation : the Lilith is a 25 year old system and its
      usage is not comparable with current operating systems.

A Lilith manual is part of the documentation.

The performance of Emulith on a 1 GHz machine is comparable with the real hardware, which used a 7 Mhz main clock. Any operation involving the disk is considerably faster on the emulator.

Download the emulator (check for new versions!) at the Emulith ftp. or from the local copy, see below.  It runs fine on Windows XP to 10 32 and 64 bit, Linux, MacOS.

Here a local copy of the ftp Lilith repository from Jos Dreeesen.

disks.tar.gz
Emulith Manual
emulith_v13.dmg.zip
emulith_v13 Windows installable/a>
Emulith_v13.tgz
ETH_Disks.zip
Makefile
medos.zip
medos_txt.zip

Lilith Handbook Aug 82
Lilith hardware manual description of the Lilith machine
Lilith install
Lilith mcode interpreter
Lilith microcode bitslice microcode listing
Lilith schematics in Eagle format
Lilith schematics and netlists

Wirth on the Personal Computer Lilith, ETH 1981
Radio Computer Bulletin april 1982 Article on Lilith
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D100,D120,D140 : Honeywell-Bull Mididisk documentation
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D100_Mididisk controller
D120 product manual
D120 product spec
D140 product spec
wd1001.pdf
Western digital MFM controller

DPU monitor
Hardware test2 list
Hardwaretest list

Panel_list.pdf
Machinecode listings for a 6802 based Lilith debugging tool, the DPU monitor.

Submon list
Machinecode listings for a 6802 based Lilith debugging tool, the DPU monitor.

eth7346 Medos2 1983
ETH7646 Lilith a Workstation Computer For Modula2 1984

All *list.pdf files are machinecode listings for a 6802 based Lilith debugging tool, the DPU monitor. They are not used in normal operation of the Lilith.

Release notes 19-03-2012

7-12-2008 – first release ( V1.00). 50 downloads and counting…

9-12-2008 – Mac OS-X binary (intel/universal) added. ( courtesy of Ingo Pascke)
– corrected diskimage added. Solves modula-2 compiler problems.
dsk_8_ok.img replaces dsk_8.img.

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13-12-2008 – Source code for V1.10 ready :
Added OS-X #ifdefs, should now compile for OS-X without changes.
Removed registerdisplay, added speed display.
Landscape / Portrait mode switch.
Setup Switches block for landscape mode added.
Black on White / White on Black switch added.
Main display border can be suppressed
Parameters stored in .ini file
Manual still to be updated ….
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21-02-2009 – Release 1.20
Port to FLTK.
Native windows version
Menu based GUI
updated manual
big/small gui selection
Filetransfer to / from hostsystem
Partial FD6502 support ( use with “applecopy”)
Medos V4 now boots
Help text added.
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8-3-2009 – Added Mac OS-X package ( intel only).
– Download emulith_v12.dmg.zip.
– unzip and mount .dmg file.
– Move the emulith directory to /Applications
– Start emulith.

The location of the binary MUST be /Applications/emulith
Manual is still to be updated.
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7-4-2009 – 15 disk images put online ( ETH_Disks.zip )
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24-5-2010 – Version 1.21
– memfilexfer now works ( copies files across disks )
– minor tweaks to get rid of some compile warnings.
Updated Makefile to define fl_ask_h, so avoiding the associated problems.

To do : – update windows & Mac builds
– get the mouse action to behave itself
– Make an overview of all available disk and the software thereon.
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1-03-2012 – Read all 38 HB120 disks of Museum for Kommunikation Berne.
Compilable source code for modula 2 V19, Medos 4 and many applications found.
– Generated some videos of some Emulith sessions.
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18-03-2012 – Version 1.30. Basic CPU emulation still unchanged.
– memfilexfer now really really works ( copies files across disks )
– Directory for virtual floppy can be selected. This enables working with more that one virtual floppy.
– Minor fixes here and there.
– Disk image location now flexible.
– Mouse somewhat improved, basic problem ( no events when host mouse outside window) seems unsolvable.
– Video output possible ( with some manual work, and only tried on Ubuntu though…)
– “startup.cmd” will be read on startup to provide initial keyboard input.
– Some videos generated from the emulator output.
– Microcode release 14 made. This will interface the Lilith to an ATA disk at IO group 4.
All existing software should run without change.
This should greatly ease a future FPGA reimplementation.

To do : convert real Lilith to ATA disk, sort MfK disks, prepare and test software packs
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19-03-2012 – Fixed keyboard input issue on OS-X.
OS-X performance issues need a long term approach..
Compilable Medos source code in medos.zip ( but .MOD not usable/readable in modern systems )
Non-Compilable Medos source code in medos_txt.zip ( but .MOD readable in modern systems )