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Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box Message #1 Posted by J-F Garnier on 17 Apr 2010, 5:05 a.m. 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 Message #2 Posted by ZOleg on 18 Apr 2010, 7:52 p.m., in response to message #1 by J-F Garnier Thanks for new version!

Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box Message #3 Posted by Mike (Stgt) on 19 Apr 2010, 4:03 a.m., in response to message #1 by J-F Garnier 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 Message #4 Posted by Egan Ford on 19 Apr 2010, 1:19 p.m., in response to message #1 by J-F Garnier Thanks! Comments/question: No problem working with OS/X, DOSBox, PILBox, 9114B. I just backed up my memory to physical disk. 9600 BPS. Slow. But it works. Does this indicate that there is no longer a commercial EMU71? Thanks again for all your hard work.

Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box Message #5 Posted by J-F Garnier on 19 Apr 2010, 2:56 p.m., in response to message #4 by Egan Ford 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 Message #6 Posted by Gene Wright on 19 Apr 2010, 3:46 p.m., in response to message #5 by J-F Garnier 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 ; [MODULES] ; 10 softwired modules max., plus 1 hardwired module ; main RAM in port 0 only ; port(1-5) type(ROM,RAM,HRD) size(Ko) file 0 RAM 32 ram00.bin 1 ROM 16 hpilrom.bin 2 ROM 32 JPCF.BIN 3 ROM 32 symb.bin 4 ROM 32 math.bin 5 RAM 32 iram50.bin ; [DEVICES] DISPLAY HDRIVE1 HDRIVE2 DOSLINK LPRTER1 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 Message #7 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 19 Apr 2010, 4:12 p.m., in response to message #6 by Gene Wright 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 Message #8 Posted by Etienne Victoria on 19 Apr 2010, 4:21 p.m., in response to message #6 by Gene Wright 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 Message #9 Posted by J-F Garnier on 19 Apr 2010, 4:21 p.m., in response to message #6 by Gene Wright 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 Message #10 Posted by Gene Wright on 19 Apr 2010, 4:31 p.m., in response to message #9 by J-F Garnier 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 Message #11 Posted by Mike (Stgt) on 20 Apr 2010, 7:44 a.m., in response to message #5 by J-F Garnier 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 Message #12 Posted by J-F Garnier on 20 Apr 2010, 4:51 p.m., in response to message #11 by Mike (Stgt) 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 Message #13 Posted by Mike (Stgt) on 21 Apr 2010, 5:43 a.m., in response to message #12 by J-F Garnier Merci! My idea just was to have everything virtual.

Re: Emu71 updated for the PIL-Box Message #14 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 26 Apr 2010, 6:54 a.m., in response to message #13 by Mike (Stgt) 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 Message #15 Posted by Egan Ford on 26 Apr 2010, 1:00 p.m., in response to message #14 by Marcus von Cube, Germany 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 Message #16 Posted by Mike (Stgt) on 27 Apr 2010, 5:57 a.m., in response to message #14 by Marcus von Cube, Germany 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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