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IIRC VSI never got the VAX stuff in the deal with HP. I don't think HP will ever bother to bring back the hobbyist program just for VAX, unfortunately.

There are easy ways around this lack of official licenses. Ways that I can't/won't go in to here.

Obviously a 1990s signature scheme can likely be brute forced today or has some known vulnerability. I remember back in the day discovering that the license key scheme for Sun's NFS for DOS had the property that re-ordering bytes from one valid key created a second also valid key.

If you google for "VMS Liberation Front" you'll find your answer.

There is a disk image of VMS 1.0 for the VAX 11/780 that is still available.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_VMS_V1.0_on_SIMH

Also would be nice to run it on SIMH[1].

[1] https://github.com/open-simh/simh/

genuine question: Is Vax simulation broken on SIMH?

https://github.com/open-simh/simh/tree/master/VAX

What makes you ask? If you're encountering problems maybe file an issue?

And for some reason refuse to use pakgen.c as if it was illegal or sth