Mac OSX and PIL-box

[Egan Ford]

(05-13-2015 06:54 PM)Gene Wrote:  The instructions are given to access the PIL box using "Crossover" which is a PC emulation program / layer on the Mac OSX.

Years ago I used the open source Wine with the Windows tools without issue. I just tried again with zero luck. I probably just need to erase my .wine dir and start over. Other Windows apps not working well either. Unsure if it's the latest version of Wine or OS/X 10.10.4.

Quote:Anyone know what has to be done to do this using Parallels or VMWare running WinXP or such?

Again years ago this worked for me all the time. I tried both Parallels and VMWare with my known working XP image and kept getting errors opening the COM port (COM3). Other USB com programs acting flaky with other com tools.

(In both cases above I should have tried directly connecting to my Mac. I was on a hub on a hub :-)

If all you need is :DISPLAY, :HDRIVE1, and a limited function scope, then I'd use ilper-linux-1.35.2. It compiles without issue and works just fine on OS/X 10.10, however only at 9600 (very slow). I patched it today to get 115200. Large file transfer throughput is 900-1000 bytes/s. I also removed the old FTDI drivers and installed the latest--I didn't mess with any latency settings.

If your PIL-Box is on /dev/cu.usbserial-FTE03NXR, then you can use my binary. Actually you can change in ilper when running too, but I'm lazy and compiled in my device path.

I backed up and restored my 71B about 10 times today to test. No issues.

Display session and restore (larger files are faster):

Code:


>DELAY 0,0
>COPY REST3:HDRIVE1 TO REST
>RUN REST
Source->:HDRIVE1
Destination->:MAIN
COPY PILBOX:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 187 BYTES/S
COPY NUM:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 177 BYTES/S
COPY REST2:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 465 BYTES/S
COPY FTH41RAM:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 1013 BYTES/S
COPY KEYS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 353 BYTES/S
COPY BUTS2:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 420 BYTES/S
COPY LINPACK:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 654 BYTES/S
COPY STREAM:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 612 BYTES/S
COPY EPS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 112 BYTES/S
COPY SCROLLW:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 394 BYTES/S
COPY BIGFACT:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 378 BYTES/S
COPY SAV41:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 248 BYTES/S
COPY SAVAGE71:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 173 BYTES/S
COPY SAVAGEF:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 233 BYTES/S
COPY SAV41I:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 352 BYTES/S
COPY F2:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 220 BYTES/S
COPY F1:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 218 BYTES/S
COPY F2B:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 109 BYTES/S
COPY DHS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 739 BYTES/S
COPY SSMC19BF:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 678 BYTES/S
COPY NQUEENS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 182 BYTES/S
COPY NQUEENSF:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 481 BYTES/S
COPY NQUEENSR:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 289 BYTES/S
COPY NQ41:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 388 BYTES/S
COPY GPS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 447 BYTES/S
COPY DUMPREG:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 170 BYTES/S
COPY SPIGOT:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 363 BYTES/S
COPY PI41:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 744 BYTES/S
COPY PI41C:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 760 BYTES/S
COPY PIATAN:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 621 BYTES/S
COPY IOB:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 34 BYTES/S
COPY LOOPCAT:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 91 BYTES/S
COPY BUTS:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 221 BYTES/S
COPY REST3:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 219 BYTES/S
COPY BUTS3:HDRIVE1 TO :MAIN
 214 BYTES/S
Restore Complete.