HP-71B and PILBox - How to transfer Program

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(10-12-2018 09:23 AM)Harald Wrote:  So it was easy to get a Program from the 71B to the PC. Now I would like to do the oposite. I have a listing of a program on the PC and I would like to transfer that to the 71B. How do I go about that?

You will need EMU71.EXE, ASC71MAC.EXE and ILPER.EXE to do it, available here: Emu71 and Virtual-IL

1. Download & install ...
   • Visual Studio 2005 Runtime (if not already installed)
   • Emu71 Emulator
   • Emu71 Macro Converter
   • IL Peripherals
     
2. Type your macro or program to a plain text file, like this DEMO.TXT
   
   Code:
   

   edit
purge
10 for i=0 to 10
20 disp i
30 next i
rename to "DEMO"
run
3. From the command line, convert your text file to a emu71 macro with the following command:
   
   Code:
   

   ASC71MAC.EXE <DEMO.TXT >DEMO.MAC
4. Run EMU71.EXE and press ON button (if needed)
5. Play Macro in Emu71
   • From the menu select: Tools -> Macros -> Play...
   • In the open dialog box, select your file (here DEMO.MAC) and press the OPEN button
   • You should see your macro being executed
     
6. Save Emu71 program to a LIF file ( I am cutting some corners here)
   • Setup EMU71 HP-IL to use TCP/IP with the following parameters [host: localhost] [Out port: 60001] [In port: 60000]
   • Run ILPER.EXE
   • Setup ILPER HP-IL to use TCP/IP with the following parameters [host: localhost] [Out port: 60000] [In port: 60001]
   • On ILPER press the START BUTTON
   • Activate HP-IL link, on Emu71 type: RESTORE IO [ENDLINE]
   • Format virtual floppy, on Emu71 type: INITIALIZE :MASSMEM [ENDLINE] (a HP9114B.DAT file will be created)
   • Copy demo program to virtual floppy, on Emu71 type: COPY "DEMO" to :MASSMEM [ENDLINE]
   • List virtual floppy content, on Emu71 type: CAT :MASSMEM [ENDLINE]
     

et voila!