OT Re: [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios
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 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
Re: OT Re: [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios
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
OT Re: [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios
If your computer will boot to a Thumb Drive, configure the thumb drive to boot dos and run from the external drive when you want to program legacy radios. I don't even bother to slow my fast laptop down when programming old radios (Syntors, etc). But some software only works well when you disable the processor internal cache, which I do with a simple (free) utility. So the same latest and greatest laptop can do both XP ( newer) and boot/run the old stuff. s. La Rue Communications laruec...@... wrote: 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 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
Re: OT Re: [Repeater-Builder] DOSBox to Program Radios
What's the name of that little jewel Thanks, John skipp025 wrote: I don't even bother to slow my fast laptop down when programming old radios (Syntors, etc). But some software only works well when you disable the processor internal cache, which I do with a simple (free) utility.
