Cross-Platform Digitalsimulator

I’ve been using Digital Simulator v5.57 by Andreas Herz for several years, first for school and later for some course during my studies at university. The program is unfortunately amazingly resilient against cross platform compilation or even usage attempts via WINE despite the main parts being written in Java. The incompatibility was mainly caused by the WinAPI-tainted DigiSim core . Finally someone I happen to know rewrote the whole thing in Java and named it jDigitalSimulator, available at http://www.ksquared.de/jdigitalsimulator/.

Since the whole program is written in Java, it runs natively (bytecode-wise, still requires the JVM of course) on Linux, Mac OS, you name it. Despite being written in a single week it provides every feature available in the “old” Digital Simulator. Its also possible to integrate plugins easily. Attached, a screen shot of JDigitalSimulator running on Ubuntu 10.04 (Launched hastily in VirtualBox to take the screen shot ).