One way only. Mvt100 either as the hardware adapter or the pc app is for display only. Does not solve the issue of cpm over serial.
Having said that, doesn't m100cpm support console over serial? I thought it did same as any cpm. Steve On Monday, March 18, 2024, Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, that's an exercise in wild. I'm not sure if I track with the > discussion, but here's what I did: > > in Windoze: > > Downloaded the MVT100 app for the desktop (doesn't work in wine after > all). Ran it from my Win 11 VM, captured the serial port, prolific maps it > to COM3, fine. Then I started up the terminal and it was blank screen, but > looked fine. I hit F6 and entered COM3, no errors, great. > > In M100: > used TEENY to bring over VT100.CO and loaded it. Looks just like before. > Read here, read there, and then: > SCREEN 1 > on the M100, this means no LCD changes... eventually figured out to look > over to my desktop, sure enough, lots of output on the terminal. Great. So, > if I type on the M100, I get output on my giant 32 inch display, yay. > > How to type on the terminal? I tried stuff with F5, but haven't gotten the > magic sauce right yet. Is it one way only? > > Thanks, > > Will > > On 3/18/24 8:21 PM, Stephen Adolph wrote: > > So does rexcpm. > Connect rs232 to pc port and display 80x24 like a dvi. > Cntl V at menu to configure! > > > On Monday, March 18, 2024, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rex supports it. Or I think you need the vt100 driver software from this >> page: >> >> >> https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=VT100 >> >> The point of this is to give you a bigger more readable display. >> >> A subset of the DVI's functionality. >> >> -- John. >> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 5:07 PM Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm a little confused about the MVT100... >>> >>> on this page: >>> >>> https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=MVT100_Desktop_Application >>> >>> It sounds like it's a terminal emulator for connecting to the M100 over >>> serial. But somewhere else I saw it as some kind of adapter to talk to VGA. >>> I'm guessing it's both - adapter gadget provides the VGA out thing and >>> provides a server for the pc terminal app? I downloaded the software and it >>> runs fine on linux under wine (to the degree that it appears to start up >>> and not crash. I couldn't figure out how to get it to talk to my m100... so >>> I'm guessing I need the hardware gadget in addition to my rexcpm to get it >>> working? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Will >>> >> >
