This commit adds a "PMMI" device to the AltairZ80 VM that emulates
the PMMI Communications MM-103 MODEM & Communications Adapter.
This device was added at the request of a Facebook user that is
attempting to preserve and document various relevant communications
programs for CP/M and allow users to experience communicating and
sharing information with other remote computers of the same time
period, all on modern hardware.
This device attempts to emulate the MC6860L digital modem chip in
such a way that communications software written for the PMMI MM-103 can
communicate over a serial port or socket without a phone line or
the ability to MOdulate/DEModulate data over a phone line.
This commit adds two new devices, "M2SIO0" and "M2SIO1", to the AltairZ80
VM. These two independent devices emulate "raw" 88-2SIO ports that can
be used instead of the "SIO" device for attaching socket and serial
ports using TMXR.
- All projects use identical include directories, library definitions and
library directories.
- Remove attempts to add XP support to projects that were converted to
.vcxproj for post VC2008 versions of Visual Studio.
- Require that git be available when building within a git repository
working directory.
The logic here is based on the idea that a restore image contains the memory content for a running simulator, while the attached files contain the disk contents for that simulator. If the disk contents have changed since the memory image was created then the two data sets are likely out of sync and disk details cached in memory (i.e. file system information, storage allocation, etc.) will likely result in corrupted disk structures if they are used.
The default behavior is to fail the restore operation if these inconsistencies are noticed. This sanity check can be overridden if the restore command is invoked with the '-F' switch: sim> restore -F simulator-state.file
Also added logging of all erro messages produced during a restore operation to both stdout and a simulator log file if it is being used.
