by GNU MDK 0.5 has been released. It is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mdk/ and mirrors of that site (see list of
mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html) [0].
GNU MDK provides a simulator of D. Knuth's MIX computer, and a
development environment to write, run and debug MIXAL programs on it.
New in this release:
** Added Guile support:
- New utility 'mixguile': a Guile shell with an embedded MIX
virtual machine.
- gmixvm and mixvm have an embedded Guile interpreter: Scheme
can be used as an extension language.
- See the updated User's Manual for details.
** New (g)mixvm commands:
- psrc: print the current program's source file path
- pprog: print the current program's path
- pline: print the current program line
- pstat: print the current virtual machine status
- slog: set on/off the logging of info messages to stdout (or
the command log in gmixvm)
** For the sake of coherence, the following (g)mixvm commands
have been renamed:
- tracing -> strace
- timing -> stime (set on/off timing),
ptime (print timing stats)
- devdir -> sddir (set the devices dir),
pddir (print the devices dir)
** Major documentation update to include Guile support and various
cosmetic corrections for pretty ps and pdf manuals (provided in the
distribution in addition to the html format).
** In gmixvm, when a font specified in the config file cannot be
loaded, it is removed from the configuration.
** gmixvm now accepts the standard command line options -vuh
** Bug fix: when the MIX font is changed in gmixvm, the loc widget
font is correctly updated.
** Bug fix: help messages are now correctly aligned in (g)mixvm.
** Bug fix: timing statitics for the MOVE instruction are correctly
computed.
** Bug fix: pressing return at an empty 'MIX >' prompt does not
produce an error message.
** Bug fix: the configure script now correctly detects the absence of
libglade (needed by gmixvm).
** Bug fix: makefiles corrected so that mdk accepts a VPATH build
('make distcheck' works now)
Visit the MDK home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/mdk.html.
Enjoy!
[0] GNU MDK source and binary packages can also be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13897
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