Nearly one year ago I expanded my Virtual HP-IL device family with ILVideo, a simulation of the HP-82163 video interface. So it's time to make a first step by updating this software to version v1.1.
Moreover I'm proud to announce a successor of the ILVideo program and a new member of my Virtual HP-IL device family. ILVideo80 a simulation of the HP-92198 80 column video interface for Windows2000 and later. Win9x isn't supported because the distributed binary is a Unicode version to support the Roman-8 character set of this video device.
Both simulations are available at http://hp.giesselink.com/hpil.htm.
Like with my HP-82163A simulation I tried to simulate the HP-92198 with a connected monitor on technical level as close as possible to the real device. Technical level in this case mean, that the simulation has a much faster display update than the original device. Also in difference to the original the simulation does not perform the ESC'z self-test and it makes no difference if the device is operating in NTSC or PAL mode. The simulated integrated video monitor accept both standards! All other ESC sequences are fully supported.
This is also the right place and time to thank Sylvain Cote for his assistance. Without him this project would have never been realized by me. The HP-IL message decoder still base on Jean-Francois Garniers implementation inside his Visual Basic version of ILPer, but now with multiple status byte report and auto extended address mode.
An Emu71/Win version with auto extended address support in the HP-IL module simulation will be published later this year.