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jamesdenton:
Sadly, LisaEm does not support Uniplus at this time and might never will. The ProFile emulation is part of the issue, and Ray never really got things working there before he passed.

I know for sure I have a working image for Uniplus running on the PocketBeagle-based emulator, but haven't tested it on the ArduinoFile. Happy to share it if it might help.

sigma7:

--- Quote from: jamesdenton on May 24, 2024, 03:09:14 pm ---ProFile emulation is part of the issue

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Now that there are numerous (developers of) ProFile emulators, there may be someone who can help fix that part of LisaEm. Is the problem well defined or easily described?

warmech:
Wanted to provide an update (and thanks!) on this. Alex sent me an image that has worked swimmingly on my ArduinoFile and, boy oh boy, UniPlus is an infinitely less sensitive OS than Xenix (and a much more pleasurable experience overall - for a Unix OS, anyway). I need to take a look at the image compu_85 posted as well and compare the two at some point.

I'll be posting another thread about Zork/Dungeon, but working with UniPlus has been a fairly frustration-free endeavor. I can connect over serial without issue and format floppies just fine, unlike Xenix; I plan on imaging some test floppies in the near future and seeing if a modern Linux distro that still has SYSV filesystem support can peer into them. If so, that will make future development tasks a bit easier. One of the issues I did run into (that also appears to be the case with Xenix) is a lack of uuencode/uudecode support. As a result, I ended up writing a quick and dirty implementation of both for UniPlus that have so far worked without issue. I'll post a link in the Zork thread.

Thank you to everyone for your help on this!

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