Toastie Posted April 25 Posted April 25 (edited) 14 minutes ago, amine said: I have found this code that can automatize lauch in dosbox by editing dosbox.conf The Archive (that is what you are doing here, right?) is still using Dosbox, isn't it? If so, that is too bad, as DOSBox-X is so much better and closer to the DOS hardware. If you ever plan on using a DOS emulator on your PC or laptop, then switch to DOSBox-X. It is under current development, improves all the time. https://dosbox-x.com/release-2026.03.29.html However, when it works, it works! Nice that you got it running!!! All the best Thorsten Edited April 25 by Toastie Quote
amine Posted April 25 Posted April 25 40 minutes ago, Toastie said: The Archive (that is what you are doing here, right?) is still using Dosbox, isn't it? If so, that is too bad, as DOSBox-X is so much better and closer to the DOS hardware. If you ever plan on using a DOS emulator on your PC or laptop, then switch to DOSBox-X. It is under current development, improves all the time. https://dosbox-x.com/release-2026.03.29.html However, when it works, it works! Nice that you got it running!!! All the best Thorsten I am trying to find a portable solution for putting everything together, you just downolad, you click, you select your software in a boot menu 1 tc logo 2 legolines 3 logowriter. 4 control lab etc But ok I will check the dosbox-X Quote
Toastie Posted April 25 Posted April 25 8 minutes ago, amine said: But ok I will check the dosbox-X Hey, you absolutely don't have to! I did a test run with DOSBox-X earlier this year, and it worked perfectly fine. My proposal is just running up-to date emulation software for such work that you do!!! All the best Thorsten Quote
amine Posted April 26 Posted April 26 (edited) https://archive.org/details/macintosh-control-lab-1.0 That version has project files translated by alex gs from the windows version. I am going to make it the online emulated archive version by the end of the week. Edited April 26 by amine Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Amine... I embed your fr Mac of control lab... and... of course it wors fine. https://legoeducacional-umcontributo.blogspot.com/2021/05/control-lab-programacao-lego-5-anos.html see at the bottom of the post. Quote
amine Posted April 27 Posted April 27 (edited) Thanks it is great!! I have seen on your blog the tc newsletter connexion. Do you you know someone who has it ? Evan might be interested. Edited April 27 by amine Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Unfortunately not. It's something I've been looking for for several years now. Quote
amine Posted April 28 Posted April 28 17 hours ago, legoROBOLAB said: Unfortunately not. It's something I've been looking for for several years now. Daniel has those in German. Quote
amine Posted April 28 Posted April 28 (edited) On 4/23/2026 at 9:55 PM, Mr Hobbles said: Hello folks, Does anyone know if anyone has uploaded a scan of the teaching materials for the DACTA Intelligent House 9707? I believe the teaching materials were set 9708. I think it came with some software on a floppy as well. Thanks! Check this blog there are s lot of ressources. https://legoeducacional-umcontributo.blogspot.com/2021/05/control-lab-programacao-lego-5-anos.html And here https://archive.org/details/@lego_dacta Edited April 28 by amine Quote
amine Posted May 2 Posted May 2 On 4/27/2026 at 10:32 AM, legoROBOLAB said: Amine... I embed your fr Mac of control lab... and... of course it wors fine. https://legoeducacional-umcontributo.blogspot.com/2021/05/control-lab-programacao-lego-5-anos.html see at the bottom of the post. I am doing the english version and I am still worling on it but you can try it here https://archive.org/details/disk1_20260502 Quote
amine Posted Wednesday at 01:21 PM Posted Wednesday at 01:21 PM (edited) On 4/25/2026 at 10:47 PM, Toastie said: Hey, you absolutely don't have to! I did a test run with DOSBox-X earlier this year, and it worked perfectly fine. My proposal is just running up-to date emulation software for such work that you do!!! All the best Thorsten I found the lego tc controller !!! https://lego2000.nl/LEGO-Technic-Robotica/index.php/ Edited Wednesday at 02:42 PM by amine Quote
Toastie Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM 1 hour ago, amine said: I found the lego tc controler !!! WHAT??? No way - it also runs on the C64??? This is crazy!!! Congratulations!!! Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted Wednesday at 05:31 PM Posted Wednesday at 05:31 PM Amine ... You are the best!!!!! You never sleep... Always searching Quote
amine Posted Wednesday at 06:03 PM Posted Wednesday at 06:03 PM 30 minutes ago, legoROBOLAB said: Amine ... You are the best!!!!! You never sleep... Always searching Thank you , the owner has replyed to me but I am waiting for Evan to reply for me because it is getting technical. Quote
Toastie Posted Wednesday at 06:19 PM Posted Wednesday at 06:19 PM 14 minutes ago, amine said: because it is getting technical Technical regarding what? Best Thorsten Quote
amine Posted Wednesday at 06:19 PM Posted Wednesday at 06:19 PM (edited) 3 hours ago, Toastie said: WHAT??? No way - it also runs on the C64??? This is crazy!!! Congratulations!!! Thorsten The owner of the disk told me the manuals are 1300 pages !!! 3 minutes ago, Toastie said: Technical regarding what? Best Thorsten Disk protection related and commodore series related stuff. Doesn't know a thing about it. You can also get in touch with Patrick the contact is in the link. 13 minutes ago, Toastie said: Technical regarding what? Best Thorsten I just sent you all the infos. Edited Wednesday at 06:23 PM by amine Quote
Toastie Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM Posted Wednesday at 07:29 PM 36 minutes ago, amine said: I just sent you all the infos. Thank you very much! Now this is really strange: The floppy clearly says: C64/128. The C128 had three op modes, one was "C64 emulation". This suggests that the floppy should load from a C64 compatible floppy drive into a C64 or C128. On the other hand, the date 1989 seen on the floppy label is far into PC (compatible) age - C64s were produced until 1994 though. According to the book "Steuern und Regeln mit dem LEGO Lines und dem LEGO TC Controller", that @evank scanned and uploaded to the Archive, TC controller is a memory resident program, that facilitates communication with the Interface A. On an IBM PC or compatible, the control.exe file is almost 40kByte long. This would never fit into a C64 - but that does not mean anything, as it could be much more efficient to run such a program on the C64 hardware. Well, as said, this is really strange. We should wait for @evank's reply and then get in touch with Patrick again. He is talking about "Commodore PCs", which are IBM compatible - that indeed would make sense. But then the floppy label is ... wrong Best Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted Thursday at 10:23 AM Posted Thursday at 10:23 AM (edited) https://archive.org/details/sundr This book may help? Edited Thursday at 10:40 AM by legoROBOLAB Quote
Toastie Posted Thursday at 10:56 AM Posted Thursday at 10:56 AM 32 minutes ago, legoROBOLAB said: This book may help? That's the one I was referring to, see post above 2nd paragraph. In this book, the use IBM (compatible) PCs. Best Thorsten Quote
evank Posted Thursday at 01:44 PM Posted Thursday at 01:44 PM My educated guess, which I've said before, is that "TC-Controller" is just a language mistranslation of TC LOGO or Lego Lines. I have no reason to believe that it's some other program entirely. Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted Thursday at 03:09 PM Posted Thursday at 03:09 PM (edited) While not entirely certain, I believe it's software for controlling other partner products (I was consulting a magazine from 1989 that mentions its use with the Logotron logo). This software, the Lego Control Logo, I found it on a site about acorn software. I create a folder with this software , a emulator, a ROMfile for, and two imagens of it. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TxR7Al-hviKxMEogl92Oio9hIavoUGub?usp=sharing Edited Thursday at 09:13 PM by legoROBOLAB Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted Friday at 07:42 AM Posted Friday at 07:42 AM And it works!!!!! To put that working I follow this: "It loads OK for me in the Windows version of BeebEm. I downloaded the Logotron Logo ROM image from https://tobylobster.github.io/rom_library/?search=logo and put this in the Documents/BeebEm/BeebFile folder. I used Logotron Logo v1.00 [variant 2]. Then configure BeebEm using the Hardware > Edit ROM Configuration menu replace one of the Empty ROM slots with Logo. If you want, you can use the Save Config button to overwrite the Roms.cfg file so Logo will be loaded each time BeebEm starts up. Then do File > Reset to reset the emulator, which load the ROMs. After this, the disk image will boot." Quote
Toastie Posted Friday at 08:11 AM Posted Friday at 08:11 AM 28 minutes ago, legoROBOLAB said: And it works! Uhm - what exactly works? You are talking about the BBC Micro emulator, right? Best Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted Friday at 10:55 AM Posted Friday at 10:55 AM The program runs on the emulator... but I don't use the interface A to try on it. Quote
amine Posted Friday at 11:28 AM Posted Friday at 11:28 AM 30 minutes ago, legoROBOLAB said: The program runs on the emulator... but I don't use the interface A to try on it. Does the emulator have parallel port support ? Quote
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