Alignfix

Greatly improved reliability installing OpenVMS 8.4-2L2, no more faulting constantly and forcing it to continue.

Now check alignment for memory page access against 8KB instead of 4KB (Alpha minimum is 8KB) and trap to PALcode to handle "unaligned" accesses.

Maximum on Alpha is 64KB (and can be changed on the fly) so this isn't a long term solution, but definitely helped.

OpenVMS install still sees occasional disk dismount complaints and mount verification, but completes without issue.

VS2022 initial build

You'll need the VGABIOS from the VGABIOS project here -> https://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/ 0.8a works well - name it "vgabios-0.8a.bin", as well as "cl67srmrom.exe" - both need to be placed in the "rom" folder for the included configuration.

NPCAP 1.75 Installed on your system. A non-network enabled version is not currently in this bundle, so NPCAP is a hard requirement to launch es40. It will list and prompt you which adapter to bind to on startup.

DKA0.img is a compressed, empty 1GB disk image for usage.

Included example config file will need to be modified to point at whatever boot ISO you wish to use, as well as terminal emulator and start strings (Example assumes C:\Program Files\Putty\Putty.exe )

Don't run ES40-CFG unless you want to create a from-scratch custom config file, it will blank out the existing one.

VSI OpenVMS 8.4-2L1 installed after repeated attempts, eventually. Networking worked, but FTP uploads seemed to be flaky. I was able to upload one of the VSI ECO's (NOTARY V0200) and install it, however. There's a rather frustrating bug with keyboard input that's yet to be fixed, so installing without graphics enabled may be preferrable.