[vcf-midatlantic] Eniac in the "news"

[Brian L. Stuart]

On Thu, 2/2/17, Dan Roganti <ragooman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ​Brian,I didn't know I missed any announcement about your
> simulator since your VCF exhibit last year. I'm looking froward
> in trying yours too. Rather use yours running natively than a java
> applet. I'm using linux mint with the amd64, I see the executible
> for this, it shouldn't matter then which distro right ?​Dan
 
Dan,
It turns out I didn't make any announcements before now.  I
had hoped to get more documentation done before calling
much attention to it.  On the other hand, I do have to be
realistic about the pace at which I'm getting there.  :)  But
between the timing with the hackaday article and the finalizing
of the configuration commands/files, it seemed a good time
to mention it.

The Linux distro shouldn't affect things to any significant
extent.  The binary is statically linked so it doesn't make
any assumptions about library versions.  You will need TCL/Tk
installed, but there's a high probability it's already there.
One thing I have noticed is that some installations create
the wish executable with version number appended and not
have one just called wish.  If that's the case, you'll want
to either create a wrapper script or a symbolic link so
that you can run wish without specifying a version number.

Have fun, and I'll be glad to try to answer any questions
that come up.

BLS