pyILPER 1.4.0 released

[Erwin]

(01-20-2017 01:36 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  

(01-19-2017 08:51 PM)Erwin Wrote:  My question is - is it possible to implement a video interface in the future. There exist programs they need a video interface in the loop and checks it - i.e. the MONITOR program in the DATA-ACQ module.
Another question, is it possible to simulate a MSDOS disc drive with pyilper? I want to use the program MSDOSXFR but it needs a SS80 formated drive.

Video emulations are available from Christoph Gießelink.
http://hp.giesselink.com/hpil.htm

If you try to mount a DOS image in pyILPER it will throw an error stating that only LIF Type 1 images are supported.
J-F's and CG's ILPer, on the other hand, supports DOS images, but only using the Filbert protocol.
http://www.jeffcalc.hp41.eu/hpil/index.html

I'd like to give ILPer a try anyway. Do you have a sample HPAF file?

Dave

Hi Dave,

thanks for the hints. Would be fine if it is possible to implement this function too. I have a MacBook and use pyilper - and its great for me in combination with the PIL-Box and the FRAM71B kit. This are my main components besides the HP71 system (9114B, printer and cassette drive, WAND, ...). With Pyilper it ist possible to have all in one place without fiddling around with different programs or VMs and Windows programs.

So it would be helpful - maybe for others too to have the possibility to transfer the HPAF files to a computer?

The other function is to convert HPFA Data files to *.PRN files via the MSDOSXFR program to use it in LOTUS 1-2-3 and convert it to EXCEL. I don't know another way to do this. As far as I can see there has to be a DOS formatted target device. The explanation in the manual is not clear about this ...

I want to try to avoid the WINDOWS system or emulation.

Find enclosed some HPAF files in the LIF for testing. Except for the LOGDATA (only test) they are all for statistical analyses. Data from the AKAPEAK is in the text file too.
If I can help with some testing - I'm ready :-)

best regards Erwin