Update of ILPer to 2.25 and all other IL programs

[rprosperi]

(12-06-2017 11:38 PM)Christoph Giesselink Wrote:  

(12-06-2017 06:53 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  @CG - Can I use ILPer v2.24 or 2.23 with ILPilsim to see if the issue is connected with the changes in v2.25? As ILPilsim was released together with v2.25, I want to make sure older versions are also compatible.

Currently not much time, of course you use the older versions of ILPer. Nothing changed in the Virtual HP-IL protocol.

I just made a quick check under DOSBox. Copied REVERSI from ILPer to the internal drive and got an error. The file of the internal drive was corrupted and at a restart the Emu71/DOS memory was cleared.

I made the same test with Emu71/DOS but this time with VirtualBox and FreeDOS and everthing worked fine. Same virtual image, but now under VMware 12, also fine.

Final test with DOSBox and a shortcut in ILPilsim: Out Port = In Port, so no external device. The transfer from REVERSI memory to REVERSI:2 disk failed also.

Somewhere the serial implementation of DOSBox has a serious problem.

Thanks for your checking and confirmation Christoph. Do you think there is any point to do more testing to try to find an exact failure mode or sequence, or is it pointless since even if found, it would not appear DOSBox would be fixed, as the latest version is from 2010?

I guess it's time to install VirtualBox again. Does VB use the same named pipe to access the virtual serial port? If you don't have links handy for the configuration I can look around for details, I've found it fairly well documented in the past.

Thanks again.