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An open source System/370, ESA/390 and 64-bit z/Architecture emulator for Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP), Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (10.3 and later).

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• Fish's Hercules Page

  http://www.softdevlabs.com/
  Describes a "Hercules Windows GUI", a graphical user interface (GUI) front-end for Windows, with screenshots and free download. Former mirror site: http://hercgui.pedroramos-si.com/

• GCCMVS

  http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net/
  A freely available 31-bit C mainframe standalone compiler designed to run on MVS (z/OS back to at least MVS 3.8j), CMS (z/VM and predecessors) and VSE (z/VSE back to DOS/VS R34). Software, documentation and links to related software is available. Site maintained by Paul Edwards.

• Hercules New Users Documentation Effort (NUDE)

  http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/hercules/index.shtml
  Ongoing documentation project.

• Hercules S/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Systems Emulator

  http://linuxvm.org/Present/SHARE99/S2880JMa.pdf
  A presentation at SHARE 99, 20 August 2002, San Francisco, California, by Jay Maynard of Global MAINTECH Corp. An overview of running vintage and modern (circa 2002) operating systems under the Hercules emulator.

• Hercules S/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Systems Emulator

  http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE108/S2864jma.pdf
  A presentation at SHARE 108, 15 February 2007, Tampa, Florida, by Jay Maynard of Savail Consulting, Inc. An overview of running vintage and modern (circa 2007) operating systems under the Hercules emulator. This document includes Powerpoint slides with the presenter's notes.

• Hercules S/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Systems Emulator

  http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE100/S2880jma.pdf
  A presentation at SHARE 100, 27 February 2003, Dallas, Texas, by Jay Maynard of Global MAINTECH Corp. An overview of running vintage and modern (circa 2003) operating systems under the Hercules emulator

• Hercules Source Repository - 'Sparrowhawk'

  https://github.com/rbowler/sparrowhawk
  Source code repository containing a historical record of the evolution of the Hercules mainframe virtualization platform, tracking each release from 1999 to the present day.

• Hercules Source Repository - 3.xx 'Spinhawk'

  https://github.com/rbowler/spinhawk/
  Source code repository for the production-quality version (release 3.xx) of the Hercules mainframe virtualization platform.

• Hercules Source Repository - 4.x 'Hyperion'

  https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion
  Source code repository for the Hyperion release of Hercules.

• Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

  http://hercdoc.glanzmann.org/
  Documentation repository for the Hercules emulator. Site maintained by Peter Glanzmann.

• Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

  http://www.hercules-390.eu/
  An open source System/370, ESA/390 and 64-bit z/Architecture emulator for Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.

• Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/hercules-390/
  Hercules Mainframe Emulator - Mirror of the former official site, http://www.hercules-390.org/ and source archive - Contains v3.07 binaries and source archives, v3.07 and prior. Maintained by Jan Jaeger.

• Hercules: The MVS/380 Project

  http://mvs380.sourceforge.net/share_mvs380.pdf
  A presentation at SHARE 112, 5 March 2009, Austin, Texas, by Jay Maynard of Savail Consulting, Inc. Explores the addition of 31-bit architecture into MVS 3.8j.

• History of IBM Mainframe Operating Systems

  http://www.demorton.com/Tech/$OSTL.pdf
  A Timeline and Brief Explanation For the IBM System/360 and Beyond including the Hercules Emulator

• Installing DOS/360 under Hercules 390

  https://sites.google.com/site/dos360install/
  This site will walk you through the installation of DOS/360, an early IBM mainframe operating system.

• Jason

  http://www.ollydbg.de/Jason/
  An integrated graphical front-end to the Hercules S/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture Emulator. Written by Oleh Yuschuk.

• Jay Moseley

  http://www.jaymoseley.com/
  Provides instructions on installing and using Hercules, as well as archives of source code, JCL, and instructions on installing and using several of the IBM mainframe operating systems and many language compilers for the System/360-390 family of mainframes.

• KICKS

  http://www.kicksfortso.com/
  A CICS-like transaction processing system for Hercules. Site includes CICS documentation reference links and a free download.

• Michigan Terminal System - Try MTS

  https://try-mts.com/why-try-mts/
  A website devoted to exploring the MTS operating system and getting it up and running under Hercules.

• Michigan Terminal System Archive

  https://sites.google.com/site/michiganterminalsystem/home
  Collect, share, and save information about the Michigan Terminal System (MTS). A comprehensive site with resources to help get MTS up and running under Hercules.

• MVS 3.8 System Documentation

  http://www.tommysprinkle.com/mvs/
  Tommy Sprinkle's MVS 3.8 documentation for Hercules.

• MVS 3.8J Technical Resources

  http://hansen-family.com/mvs/
  Documentation for the Hercules and MVS 3.8 environment on a PC.

• MVS 3.8j Tur(n)key 4- System (TK4-)

  http://wotho4.ethz.ch/
  An update to Volker Bandke's Tur(n)key 3 (TK3) System by Jürgen Winkelmann - OS/VS2 MVS 3.8j Service Level 8505 - Tur(n)key Level 4- Version 1.00, update 08 - Explains how to access the publicly available online demo system as well as a link to the downloadable distribution packages. Original release date: November 2013. Update 08 released: September 26, 2016.

• MVS Dynamic Debug Tool

  http://mvsddt.altervista.org/
  The MVS Dynamic Debug Tool is a client/server debugging tool for MVS 3.8 running under Hercules. Written and supported by Shelby Beach.

• MVS Tur(n)key System Version 3 (TK3)

  http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/
  Download links for a ready to install turnkey package consisting of a combination of Hercules and MVS 3.8j (both, circa 2002) and extensive Cookbook documentation. Alternate location to download the TK3 CD: http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/downloads/archives/turnkey-mvs-3.zip - Note: TK4- by Jürgen Winkelmann (see above), is a more up to date, turnkey implementation.

• MVS/380 - 31-bit MVS - 25 years in the making

  http://mvs380.sourceforge.net/
  The family of freely-available 31-bit mainframe operating systems which currently includes MVS/380, VM/380 and VSE/380. Software, documentation and links to related software is available. Site maintained by Paul Edwards.

• MVT - Guide to installing TSO under MVT on Hercules

  http://www.clueful.co.uk/mbeattie/hercules/tso.html
  Instructions documented by Malcolm Beattie.

• MVT for APL Version 2.00

  http://wotho.ethz.ch/mvt4apl-2.00/
  OS/360-MVT 21.8F customized for use with APL\360 Version 1 Modification Level 1 by Jürgen Winkelmann - IBM APL\360 source code is also needed and can be downloaded from http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-apl-programming-language-source-code/

• Oppolzer - Informatik / Stanford Pascal Compiler

  http://bernd-oppolzer.de/job9.htm
  Updated version of the Stanford Pascal Compiler designed to run on VM/370 Rel. 6 under the Hercules emulator. It should also run on today's z/VM and some, or all flavors of z/OS, a.k.a. MVS too, however it has not been tested on those operating systems. Currently supported by Bernd Oppolzer.

• OS/360 - Introduction to Generating and Running OS/360 on Hercules

  http://www.conmicro.com/hercos360/index.html
  An introduction to getting IBM's OS/360 operating system loaded and running on the Hercules emulator for the System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture systems. Tutorial created by Jay Maynard. Obtain IBM OS/360 software from: http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/

• Prycroft Six

  http://www.prycroft6.com.au/
  MVS 3.8, OS/390 and z/OS program products and technical services including system software development. Includes download links and documentation.

• Running Classic Operating Systems with Hercules

  http://tech-insider.org/mainframes/research/acrobat/010725-a.pdf
  A presentation at SHARE 97, 25 July 2001, Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Jay Maynard of Global MAINTECH Corp. Looks in detail at OS/360, VM/370 and MVS Version 3.8. Prior link: http://tech-insider.org/open-source-software/research/acrobat/010725-a.pdf

• Tim's Hercules Page

  http://www.timpinkawa.net/hercules/
  Resource links and documentation for Hercules and MVS Turnkey v3 from Tim Pinkawa.

• Tur(n)key #3, Hercules, MVS/380, VM/370, VM/380, DocLinks

  http://tk3.comli.com/mvs380/_TK3herc_links.html
  A page of links to public domain versions of MVS and CMS and supporting software, such as Hercules and terminal emulation software.

• Vintage Computer Manuals

  http://tk3.comli.com/mvs380/Vintage_Manuals.html
  Vintage IBM Manuals for MVS/370, VM/370, OS/360. Temporary alternate link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-os380/files/Vintage_Manuals.html

• Vintage IBM Hardware and Software

  http://www.vintagebigblue.org/
  A collection of, and links to resources useful for installing and running public domain IBM emulated hardware and software.

• Wikipedia: Hercules emulator

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_emulator
  Background, performance and controversy with IBM. [Wikipedia]

• Yahoo! Groups : cbt-tape

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cbt-tape/info
  Discussion on anything related to the CBT-TAPE free user supported IBM mainframe software.

• Yahoo! Groups : H390-MVS

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/H390-MVS/info
  Discussion group for users of the MVS Operating System running under Hercules.

• Yahoo! Groups : H390-VM

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/H390-VM/info
  Discussion group for users of the VM Operating System running under Hercules.

• Yahoo! Groups : hercules-390

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-390/info
  Discussion group for users of the Hercules ESA/390 mainframe emulator

• Yahoo! Groups : hercules-os380

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-os380/info
  Discussion group for users of the OS/380 family of operating systems (MVS/380, VM/380, VSE/380) utilizing a patched version of the Hercules mainframe emulator (enabling MVS 3.8 limited 31-bit capabilities). Includes discussion of C tools adapted for use on all MVS platforms, MVS 3.8 through z/OS as well as all VM platforms.

• Yahoo! Groups : turnkey-mvs

  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/turnkey-mvs/info
  Discussion group for users of the Turnkey MVS System utilizing the Hercules mainframe emulator. Warning and disclaimer: Membership in and content posted in this group is strictly monitored. Deviance from the moderators' beliefs and direction may be grounds for expulsion.

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