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

[Philipp Hachtmann]

hm...


Bill Buzbee schrieb:
> 
> Philipp Hachtmann writes:
> ...snip
> > > 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.
> > On Win98 I can write out well.
> > On W2K it doesn't RUN at all (exception..... before Window showed)
> > I've NEVER read in successfully :-(
> > (On several systems and Win98/2k)
> 
> Heavy Metal will not work on WinNT/Win2K (and presumably not on WinXP,
> though I haven't tried).  The issue here is that these operating systems
> are trying to be serious and correctly disallow a promiscuous application
> like Heavy Metal from directly configuring a shared device such a serial
> port.  The solution here is to write a device driver which will handle
> the setting of the odd baud rate, and perhaps I'll get around to that
> some day (although "She Who Must Be Obeyed" has a number of household
> projects for me to do that are a bit higher priority).
> ...Bill
:-( I'm NOT able to write device drivers for WINDOWS!
My linux driver used a parallel port with interrupt. I thing the serial
port 
will be not more complicated to use.
My linux problem was the timing. I was too stupid to generate an exact
timing.
When system's load rised, everything was scrambled.....
Then I took a PIC. 
I learned to program PICs and ported my software. Then I had a
teleprinter-auto-power-rs232-
converter with auto-lf-code-and-baud-conversion etc...
Later I tried to wire up a modem.....
With new design and new Software, I've just released the 1st
"telexphone" version....
My circuit will be able to manage a serial connection, too... but I had
not the time to 
program yet. It will come soon...
If you want to take a closer look:
images on http://teleprinter.net/txp and
http://telex.hachti.de/telexphone/
But it's STILL all in German. We're looking forward to translate...


...Philipp :-)