<Cprossu> I've reached out to David Brower, since he made/wrote and used the tools to convert the mfm emulator files back and forth from the freebee emulator form to another
<Cprossu> and I have like zero clue how to use them
<Cprossu> https://github.com/dad4x/s4-3b1-pc7300
From: Cprossu <cprossu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:36 AM
Subject: Floating a trial balloon to see if it lands where it should... (AT&T/Convergent Unix PC/7300/3B1/Safari/ETC)
To: David.Brower@oracle.com
Hello there, I am messing around with a AT&T unix pc emulator and I have a friend with several functioning ATT unix pc's and other weird stuff. My goal is to take games from the CTIX miniframe tape and see if they will run on the 3B1 emulator at least since the two machines should be binary compatible. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Convergent/miniframe /BO-11x-4_1err_CTIX_Single- User_3.20.zip The tape file that contains the said games is "ft" I am not sure if it's possible to make a tape image and then run it on the emulator or the real machine, but it would be interesting to find out. The single tape file is too big to put on a 360k dd 5 1/4" floppy image, but might fit on a dd 720k 3 1/2" (80 cyl instead of 40?) image. If not we'll have to untar it not using native software, which would add another complexity level to it? I am running this guy's precompiled 3b1 freebee emulator, as when I attempted compiling the original code under CYGWIN terrible things happened -> http://virtuallyfun.supergloba lmegacorp.com/2014/05/21/ philip-pembertons-3b1-emulator -now-boots-att-unix/#comment- 158503 I discovered your page -> https://github.com/dad4x/s4-3b 1-pc7300 because my friend supplements and backs up his unix pc's utilizing the Gesswein unix emulator, and found that you were able to take the .emu files from the emulator and through your programs convert them into an image to run on the freebee emulator. I have no idea how to install or run these in a windows environment, so I might have to make a VM to do it all, and even then I do not understand how to use your tools properly to accomplish what you did using my friend's real disk images. Basically I have lots of copies of files I want to transfer and try between real machines, emulated machines, and other stuff and I don't know how to proceed. Hopefully this email forwards to you. Let me know if you get the email, and if you can help me figure this mess out I am in #mightyframe on irc.freenode.net if you are into IRC, with my friend who has the real machines. -Cprossu Andrew Lewton
