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1. Implement new system and disk subsystem configuration mechanism. 2. Implement initial Mark-XIII Cold Start card deck for use with new configuration interfaces. 3. Deprecate use of B5500ColdLoader.html script (replaced by new configuration mechanism and Cold Start deck), but correct and enhance IndexedDB database detection, creation, and deletion in it. 4. Implement "Application Cache" support to allow emulator to run off-line in a browser. 5. Implement web-font support and update all UIs to use DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Mono from downloaded .woff or .ttf font files. 6. Rework some code in Processor OPDC, DESC, and indexDescriptor routines, attempting to resolve Flag Bit errors (issue #23). This appears to result in some improvement, but we still see them occasionally under load. 7. Line Printer: - Implement new line printer driver with more realistic UI and operator controls. - Implement Algol Glyphs option to render special Algol characters in Unicode. - Implement support for optional "greenbar" shading on the "paper". 8. SPO: - Redesign SPO driver to accept input from a text <input> element instead of capturing keystrokes directly from the window or "paper" <iframe>. This was done to allow input from tablet and mobile devices that will not pop up a keyboard unless an input-like element has the focus. - Implement Unicode Algol Glyphs support on output. - Intelligently resize "paper" area when SPO window is resized. - Accept "_" as a substitute for "~" as end-of-message on input. 9. Card Punch: - Implement Unicode Algol Glyphs support on output. - Implement stacker-full annunciators in UI. 10. Card Reader: - Implement Unicode Algol Glyphs support on input. - Accept "_" as a substitute for "~" on input. 11. Disk: - Adapt B5500DiskUnit driver to new configuration mechanism. - Implement support for Model-IB (slow) disk and non-DFX disk storage configurations; support up to 20 EUs. - Implement check for DKA readiness in cc.load() if not doing card-load-select. 12. Datacom: - Rework datacom driver keystroke handling for compatibility with Google Chrome. - Correct typo (line 437) in B5500DatacomUnit reported by Peter Grootswagers (issue #28). 13. Magnetic Tape: - Implement more granular tape reel animation in B5500MagTapeDrive. - Open the tape loader window on top of its device window. 14. Correct color of NOT READY lamps in peripheral device UIs; convert <progress> bars to <meter> elements. 15. More intelligently resize peripheral UI controls when their window is resized. 16. Implement lamp test during power-on in B5500Console. 17. Illuminate NOT READY light on Console at power-on if certain minimum configuration requirements are not met. 18. Set all HTML <meta> Content-Type character sets to UTF-8 (were ISO-8859-1); correct problem with FireFox requiring the character set to be specified within the first 1024 characters of an HTML file. 19. Clean up and refactor CSS style sheets 20. Split Javascript code out from B5500Console.html to new B5500Console.js. 21. Refactor common UI routines into webUI\B5500Util.js. 22. Move images and fonts to new webUI/resources directory; rearrange files in webUI/tool, tools, tests, source directories of repo. 23. Make significant wiki updates to document the new features in this release.
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<title>retro-B5500 Emulator Utilities Menu</title>
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<meta name="Author" content="Nigel Williams & Paul Kimpel">
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<a href="../index.html" title="Click to return to the Home Page">
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<img id=retroButton src="../webUI/resources/A-CONTROL.png" alt="retro A-CONTROL logo">
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<h1><img src="../webUI/resources/retro-B5500-Logo.png" alt="retro logo">
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Burroughs B5500 Emulator Utilities Menu
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<p>This page contains links to a number of standalone utilities for the web-based B5500 emulator. These utilities all run in a web browser. They should generally not be used at the same time the emulator is running from the
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<a href="../webUI/B5500Console.html">B5500 Console</a> page.
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<li><a href="../webUI/B5500ColdLoader.html">Cold Loader</a>
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<br>Utility script to initialize the web-based emulator's disk subsystem and load files from the Mark XIII Burroughs software release tape images.
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<li><a href="../webUI/B5500SyllableDebugger.html">Syllable Debugger</a>
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<br>A user interface for the emulator that is an alternate to B5500Console. This implements a very basic debugging environment that allows you to load an ESPOL program from disk or cards, single-step through its execution, run until a specified stop address, and view the state of memory and the registers in Processor 1. Programs compiled other than with ESPOL cannot be run directly in this debugger -- they must run under the control of the MCP.
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<li><a href="../tools/B5500DiskDirList.html">MCP Disk File Directory List</a>
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<br>A utility to list the files and their attributes in the MCP's disk directory.
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<li><a href="../tools/B5500DiskFileList.html">MCP Disk File Lister</a>
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<br>A utility to display the list of files in the MCP's disk directory. By clicking on one of the file names, the contents of that file will be output to a separate window. This utility understands printer-backup (PBD) files, and will format them as print line images rather than their raw format.
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<li><a href="../tools/B5500LibMaintDir.html">Library/Maintenance Tape Image Directory List</a>
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<br>A utility to read a <code>.bcd</code> Library/Maintenance tape image and produce a detailed directory listing of the files it contains, along with the attributes of those files.
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<li><a href="../tools/B5500LibMaintExtract.html">Library/Maintenance Tape Image Extract</a>
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<br>A utility to read and step through the files in a <code>.bcd</code> Library/Maintenance tape image, displaying each one in a window where they can be viewed or extracted.
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<li><a href="../tools/B5500LibMaintDecoder.html">Library/Maintenance Tape Image Decoder</a>
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<br>A very basic utility that examines the <code>.bcd</code> tape image files and dumps a portion of them. This was originally developed as a study to understand the format of those images.
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Copyright (c) 2013, Nigel Williams and Paul Kimpel • Licensed under the MIT License
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<div id=lastModDiv>Revised
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2014-07-19
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