From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18004 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2021 07:33:30 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 7 Feb 2021 07:33:30 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2C0889C7AB; Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:33:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CC09BA45; Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:32:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D064F9BA45; Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:32:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 303109BA3F for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:32:46 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 1177WeX8014241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 7 Feb 2021 00:32:41 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 1177Wd3r014240; Sun, 7 Feb 2021 00:32:39 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202102070732.1177Wd3r014240@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:32:39 -0700 To: spedraja@gmail.com, arnold@skeeve.com References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] AT&T 3B1 - Emulation available X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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 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 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 > >