[GreenKeys] Hmpf... Heavy metal doen't work....

[Bill Buzbee]

Philipp Hachtmann writes:
> 
> Thank you for quick answer :-)
> 
> Bill Buzbee schrieb:
> > 
> >   The first thing I would do is try William Bytheway's RTTYArt
> > program.  Let me know if RTTYArt work for you, but Heavy Metal
> > doesn't. 
> Where to get?

A quick trip to google shows:

http://www.wetnet.ampr.org/~aa6ed/software/

However, William Bytheway is active on this list - is there a
better place to get it?

> 
> > Except when it tries to go behind Windows' back to
> > directly twiddle with the UART to set the odd baud rates, Heavy Metal
> > uses the serial port in a fairly standard way.
> Hm.... I don't understand why it doesn't work :-(

Could you give a bit more detail about your failure mode?  Can
you send OK, but just not receive?  Perhaps I did not initialize
the ports correctly and the windows driver is expecting some odd
handshaking.

> 
> >  Note, though, that
> > there may be problems if you are using Windows COM ports other
> > than COM1: and COM2:.  If so, email me directly for details.
> I used com2....

The issue is that Heavy Metal thinks it knows the port addresses of
the various com devices.  It turns out that except for COM1: and COM2:,
your address may vary.  In the current version of Heavy Metal, it
thinks COM2: lives at 0x2f8.  If your's does not, then that may be
the problem.
 
> 
> Hm.. If it doesn't work at all I will have to write an own application.
> Or reuse my linux device driver for teleprinter....

If you're running Linux, you might try the Perl version of Heavy Metal
directly.  It uses setserial rather than try to do things directly, and
is much cleaner in general.  Heavy Metal was written on Linux, and then
ported to Windows.

> 
> 
> Yours,
> Philipp.
> 
> P.S.: What's Transmeta?

It's a company that makes the Crusoe low-power microprocessors.  We
were in the news quite a bit a couple of years ago, in part because
one of my coworkers is Linus Torvalds.

...Bill Buzbee