On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:01 AM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone by chance used the serial port (on a real serial device) in > VirtualT successfully? > > Is it generally considered a working feature or a feature that exists but > may or may not be 100% or no one really knows because no one really uses it? > > I can't replicate the tpdd bootstrap procedure which works with a real > 100/200. It gets a few hundred bytes in and then DS? error. > > But it also gives the same DS? error loading or running the same file.do > right from ram, installed by using the option to load a file from the host > filesystem, and that shouldn't have anything to do with the virtual serial > port. > > Yet the file is also the same file which is successfully loaded and run by > a real machine, so the file itself must be ok. > > I tried different cpu emulation speeds. > > As far as I know, it still works. Ken wrote the Windows emulation. I contributed the Linux emulation. I use it for testing serial code. Doesn't mean it's perfectly compatible with all code. Could be timing issues. -- John.
