And the only person other than Mark who has made commits to simh/simh since open-simh was forked is..... me :(

Guess I will have to resubmit to the new repo.  

I read through some of the discussion and I was also under the impression that the simh/simh project was a proper 
open source continuation of Bob's original.  So a new project based on proper open source principles looks 
like the "least worst" option at this point.


On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 at 09:13, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
The metadata is exactly one extra block, and it's definitely been around
for longer than a month or two.

It's been disagreed on for a while by at least me (and I think some
others). I don't know why it suddenly triggered the big discussion just
recently. Personally, I've mostly been exchanging mails directly with
Mark about it.

But I cannot remember when it actually came about. Like I said, go and
check the last block of your images if there is something "funny" there.

But I'm even more behind than you are. I'm running a version more than 2
years old. And as far as I can tell, that version isn't changing the images.

   Johnny

On 2022-06-04 03:12, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>    I got the impression from the email thread that it was a fairly recent
> (e.g. this May) change, but that might just be when people started noticing.
> It looks like the last time I updated my simulators from github was around
> April 2021, so hopefully I'm OK.   I also see that all my disk images are an
> exact multiple of 512 bytes, which is also a good sign (unless of course the
> metadata is 512 bytes too!).
>
>    It's a bit of a concern because from time to time I copy simh simulated
> disk image files to a real, physical, disk (RL02, RA7x, RA8x, etc) and I
> also do the reverse (make simh disk images by copying physical disks).
> That's always worked flawlessly in the past.
>
>    I also had no idea that Bob Supnik was independently working on a simh
> update, nor that Mark's github repository was his own personal project.  I
> guess I always assumed that it was "sanctioned" in some way.  Silly me...
>
> Bob
>
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