Emulating Heathkit Computers with MAME

In this video, I demonstrate how several Heathkit computer products can run in emulation on a desktop computer using the MAME emulator software.

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[MikeyNIL]

Thanks for your excellent video explaining how to run Heathkit computers in MAME. Many people still think MAME is only for video games. Maybe it was that way years ago. Today’s MAME also emulates many many different computers as well. We need more videos like yours showing in detail how to actually use the computer emulations that exist in MAME. Some of the emulations are more complete than others as you have shown here with H89 compared to H8. The major home computers probably have the best support. I have made videos demonstrating the TRS-80 Coco, IBM PC/AT and clones, and the SWTPC 6800 computers all running under MAME. Those systems even emulate different cards and peripherals you can attach to the computers including cartirdges, floppy and disk controllers, drives, and disk images, tape drives, sound cards, printers, serial ports, MAME does have a learning curve but you’ll have so much fun playing with different systems once you learn it. Again, please keep up the good work.

[nowsc]

… great expo! Now let’s see something about the Kim-1 micro computer – 6502 ! Thanks for your great video!

[briandecker]

Great video - thanks for this comprehensive review of some underappreciated electronics.

[capnrob]

I have been wanting a Heathkit H8 for a while now, this lets me play with it and get used to it before I end up buying one.

I figured out how to get BASIC loaded off a tape image and actually use it (Had to fiddle with the Machine Configs in MAME to get the serial terminal in MAME working properly)

[tubeDude]

Very exciting stuff! Sure miss my H-8!

[josephsmith]

The ending prompt for hdos was always there

[captaindunsell]

There hex version of the bios out in the public domain

[josephsmith]

I have sever h89/90 and a pair of H8's, 3 working last time I checked

[captaindunsell]

Both copyright owners put their code in the public domain… including hdos

[LaserFur]

I saw a heathkit at a auction, but did not bid on it.