I think freedos has support for usb devices. It's an open source clone of
dos. It works for programming some radios in my experience but I never tried
the usb support for a usb-serial adapter.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM, La Rue Communications
laruec...@gmail.comwrote:
Finally - another Mac fan surfaces! :-)
I have tried using DOSBox on our WinXP, however have had ZERO luck on the
serial port recognition. Fromw hat I heard, the emulator will not recognize
serial ports. Is that why you have resorted to the USB dongle? I cant
remember if DOS ever recognized USB accessories. THats news to me!
THanks for the tip!
John Hymes
La Rue Communications
10 S. Aurora Street
Stockton, CA 95202
http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn
- Original Message -
*From:* Tim - WD6AWP tisaw...@gmail.com
*To:* Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Monday, August 09, 2010 7:02 AM
*Subject:* [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios
DOSBox (www.dosbox.com) is an x86 emulator with DOS. It works great for
programming those radios that need old, slow PCs for the software. I use it
on my MacBook dual booting into Windows 7 and using an IO Gear USB serial
dongle on COM1. So far I've programmed a couple of Radius M1225's and a
VXR-5000. A friend of mine has similar results with Windows XP on a 800Mhz
PC with a real serial port.
--
Tim
