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Update of ILPer to 2.25 and all other IL programs
10-15-2018, 12:54 AM
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RE: Update of ILPer to 2.25 and all other IL programs
(10-13-2018 04:57 PM)Christoph Giesselink Wrote:  Only a minor issue with the display buffer and HP-IL device CLEAR. CLEAR hasn't purged the temporary display buffer and so a remainder in the buffer may occur in the printer window after the CLEAR under very special circumstances.

Thanks Christoph.

I've done some additional testing using ILPer v2.31 and ILPILSim v1.01 and EMU71/75 running under DOSBOX 0.74-2 and encountered no problems at all:

Using EMU75/DOS:

File COPY/PURGE/RENAME operations among and between internal and external (PIL-Box/ILPer) devices.
Initializing non-existing files on ILPer's virtual drives.

Using EMU71/DOS:

File COPY/PURGE/RENAME operations among and between internal and external (PIL-Box/ILPer) devices.
Initializing non-existing files on ILPer's virtual drives.
Importing a DOS TEXT file from :DOSLINK(2) device on ILPer, using technique shown in JFG's 2014 Allschwil "Using the DOSLink device for EMU71/Win" presentation

Indeed, it appears using ILPILSim to enable EMU71/75 to use the PIL-Box is quite stable and reliable using the latest DOSBOX 0.74-2 patch.

Related Note: I saw a comment on the DOSBOX homepage saying that a major new version (0.75) would begin testing "soon", intended primarily to extend support for more DOS games. It seems like the timing tweaks revealed in 0.74-2 have solved some long-standing internal issues, for much more than serial comms.

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