From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: spedraja@gmail.com, arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:32:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202102070732.1177Wd3r014240@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACytpF8PfxxkLrsdVPVnVKwtjvYARG2m=pyZgaWi5yqrVxDhKA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi.
Thanks for the update. The speed comparison is interesting.
With respect to screen flickering, please open an issue on the Github
repo. I don't really see that under Linux.
Thanks,
Arnold
Sergio Pedraja <spedraja@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I've built Freebee using Make and specifying win32 as
> architecture under Cygwin with libSDL2 plus Cygwin-X XWindows installed.
> The Freebee runs starting it from xterm. It's a bit faster than my own
> real 3B1. I have briefly tested the two startup hard drives and the second
> hard drive, empty. No problem as far as I have seen. Great work. On the
> other hand I dare to suggest the improve of the GUI of the emulator to
> reduce the flickering of the 3B1's screen refresh. Is too much visible.
> Thanks and good luck, anyway.
>
> Sergio
>
> El vie., 29 ene. 2021 11:50, Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> escribió:
>
> > Hello All.
> >
> > Many of you may remember the AT&T UNIX PC and 3B1. These systems
> > were built by Convergent Technologies and sold by AT&T. They had an
> > MC 68010 processor, up to 4 Meg Ram and up to 67 Meg disk. The OS
> > was System V Release 2 vintage. There was a built-in 1200 baud modem,
> > and a primitive windowing system with mouse.
> >
> > I had a 3B1 as my first personal system and spent many happy hours writing
> > code and documentation on it.
> >
> > There is an emulator for it that recently became pretty stable. The
> > original
> > software floppy images are available as well. You can bring up a fairly
> > functional system without much difficulty.
> >
> > The emulator is at https://github.com/philpem/freebee. You can install up
> > to two 175 Meg hard drives - a lot of space for the time.
> >
> > The emulator's README.md there has links to lots of other interesting
> > 3B1 bits, both installable software and Linux tools for exporting the
> > file system from disk image so it can be mounted under Linux and
> > importing it back. Included is an updated 'sysv' Linux kernel module
> > that can handle the byte-swapped file system.
> >
> > I have made a pre-installed disk image available with a fair amount
> > of software, see https://www.skeeve.com/3b1/.
> >
> > The emulator runs great under Linux; not so sure about MacOS or Windows.
> > :-)
> >
> > So, anyone wishing to journey back to 1987, have fun!
> >
> > Arnold
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-07 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-29 10:49 Arnold Robbins
2021-01-29 13:49 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-29 14:37 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-31 7:57 ` arnold
2021-01-31 8:41 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-03 7:53 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 7:59 ` arnold
2021-02-03 8:53 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 8:58 ` arnold
2021-02-03 10:13 ` Ed Bradford
2021-02-03 14:58 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-03 15:33 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-03 16:53 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 0:41 ` [TUHS] 68k prototypes & microcode John Gilmore
2021-02-04 0:52 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:10 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:47 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 1:57 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-04 7:23 ` Arno Griffioen
2021-02-04 11:28 ` Toby Thain
2021-02-04 15:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-04 16:03 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-04 21:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 22:11 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 22:39 ` Adam Thornton
2021-02-04 22:47 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-05 14:42 ` Michael Parson
2021-02-04 22:56 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-04 23:14 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-04 1:35 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 2:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-04 15:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-02-05 2:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-05 2:53 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-04 1:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 1:20 ` Clem Cole
2021-02-04 14:56 ` John Cowan
2021-02-03 15:20 ` [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 16:48 ` Doug McIntyre
2021-02-03 10:46 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-03 11:13 ` arnold
2021-02-05 12:44 ` Sergio Pedraja
2021-02-07 7:32 ` arnold [this message]
2021-02-17 16:07 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-02-17 22:00 ` Ed Carp
2021-02-17 22:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-18 1:30 ` Ed Carp
2021-02-18 7:59 ` arnold
2021-02-18 18:07 ` Brad Spencer
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