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Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - J-F Garnier - 04-17-2010 Hi, an update of my Emu71 emulator with support of the PIL-Box is now available on my site . It was already possible to exchange program and data between Emu71 and a HP-71B by using the ILPer software and this is still the recommended method, but now Emu71 is also able to directly drive external HP-IL devices such as a HP3468 multimeter or a HP9114 drive.
J-F
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - ZOleg - 04-18-2010 Thanks for new version!
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Mike (Stgt) - 04-19-2010 Merci beaucoup! Mais... is it possible to link now your emu41 and emu71 to a "virtual" HP-IL? Or is it only possible using your PIL-Box? Which _is_ a must-have anyway I was told this WE.
Ciao.....Mike
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Egan Ford - 04-19-2010 Thanks!
Comments/question:
Thanks again for all your hard work.
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - J-F Garnier - 04-19-2010 Indeed there is no more a registered version. A side effect of providing PIL-Box support is that the ISA board is also supported in the free version. To Mike: data can be easily be shared between Emu41 and Emu71 by using the same hdrive1 file, for instance.
J-F
Dumb question #1 - Gene Wright - 04-19-2010 Ok, downloaded and launched the emu71. Get messages that the rom files that I put in the .ini file are not found as it starts up. The rom images are in the same folder as the emu71 file that I am running in a command prompt window in XP.
The emu71.ini file contains: ; emu71.ini Emu71 initialisation file
So...dumb question...what mistake have I made? I renamed the ROMs to the shorter names and even tried caps vs. no caps.
Re: Dumb question #1 - Etienne Victoria - 04-19-2010 Gene, IIRC, the math Rom is MATHROM.BIN and not math.bin. Did you rename it "math.bin" on purpose ? And in your config, depending on your JPC Rom version, you may want to check the filename too: for example JPCROMF.BIN for the F revision. Best Etienne
Edited: 19 Apr 2010, 4:14 p.m.
Re: Dumb question #1 - Etienne Victoria - 04-19-2010 Gene, Sorry for not reading your post thoroughly enough. You state quite clearly that you did rename your Rom filenames. So I cannot help further. The only thing I can say: This new version works for me with the original filenames as found on the Roms repository hosted by Jean-François. Hope you can fix your issue. Etienne
Re: Dumb question #1 - J-F Garnier - 04-19-2010 Did you have the problem with the default ini file and ROM names? Can you check that the "8.3" filenames are correct with a DIR /X at the command prompt? I think someone already reported this, it was caused by a particular un-zip utility. Can you try to unzip with an other tool?
J-F
Re: Dumb question #1 - Gene Wright - 04-19-2010 Aha. The DIR /X suggestion pointed out the problem. Been a long time for me away from DOS. Issue was that in windows the file extension was not showing...so stupid OSX Mac guy that I was... I added .bin to the filename. So, the filename to DOS was Math.bin.bin. Ha.
Loaded now. Thank you.
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Mike (Stgt) - 04-20-2010 Dacord, I did read your description. But I wanted to go a step further, for example put your emu41 with the 'Devil-ROM' in a IL to monitor the IL-commands. BTW, this is the only condition when the HP-41 is not the controler of the IL. To be more precise: may I use the ILPer without PIBox (which I do not have yet), together with emu41 *and* one or more emu71? Or without emu41 and just one (or more) instances of emu71?
Ciao.....Mike
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - J-F Garnier - 04-20-2010 ILPer is to be used only with the PIL-Box. An external HP-IL controller (41, 71, 75) can communicate with several instances of Emu41 and Emu71 by using a commun disc image file but no way to build a virtual HP-IL connection between Emu41 and Emu71. J-F
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Mike (Stgt) - 04-21-2010 Merci!
My idea just was to have everything virtual.
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Marcus von Cube, Germany - 04-26-2010 There might be a way with software like com0com which provides virtual com ports that are linked together. If they are seen by Emu71 and/or Emu41 and can be used as a PILbox substitute, it might work.
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Egan Ford - 04-26-2010 That may actually work. Unless, EMU41/EMU71 for the PIL-Box sends something to the PIL-Box that is unique to the PIL-Box (e.g. some type of reset) that must be acknowledged. I've use com0com to have different EMU48 sessions communicate. I also used it for this project: http://sense.net/~egan/virtual82240b/. Good stuff.
Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box - Mike (Stgt) - 04-27-2010 I thoght about this too but did not test it yet. IIRC Christoph Giesselink once mentioned it to link an emulated calculator running under Emu48 to the host. That I tried and failed as 'my' WinXP did not like com0com too much it seemed to me. I will give it an other try on Win7 Starter ...fun ...joke ...
Ciao.....Mike
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