you have to tell your dosbox the serial port information: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Configuration:SerialPort
basically your usb port will be like COM5 so you have to set port 1 to realport:COM5 Greg On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote: > I was afraid of that. Well it’s not liking my setup here so I’ll have to > pull an old laptop out of mothballs at work tomorrow which has a real > serial port and XP on it. That may solve my problem. I’m using DOSbox but > neither TEENY or DESKLINK is happy with COM1 being a USB->serial adapter. > > > > Kurt > > > > *From:* M100 [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John > R. Hogerhuis > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:06 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [M100] TEENY.EXE > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I’ve been trying to get TEENY.EXE to work on my desktop. I’ve got a > USB-serial adapter set to com1 but TEENY is unable to detect a laptop. I’m > having to run TEENY.EXE in a DOS box due to it being a 16bit application. > Does it require a real serial port? > > > > Kurt > > > > > > That does sound familiar. When I ran TEENY.EXE it might have been under > DOSBOX or DOSEmu. > > > > But when I did it it was definitely with a USB serial port, which these > emulators support just fine AFAIR. > > > > -- John. >
