Comment by musha68k

"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.

So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it - if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.

I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:

https://github.com/MiSTer-Enhanced/PDP2011_MiSTer