legoROBOLAB Posted May 8 Posted May 8 (edited) http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/index.html here you find all about the emulator. I can't put here photos... but it can communicate with LPT1 till LPT4 for printer Edited May 8 by legoROBOLAB Quote
Toastie Posted May 8 Posted May 8 46 minutes ago, legoROBOLAB said: I can't put here photos... but it can communicate with LPT1 till LPT4 for printer Photos: You need an outside hoster and link the photos here. On which machine are you running the emulator? Best Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted May 8 Posted May 8 (edited) Right now, just to see if the software would start, I'm using one of my PCs: a Surface 4 Pro running Windows 10. I usually use an HP Compaq NC6320 with Windows XP for the control lab... the control lab works perfectly here. Edited May 8 by legoROBOLAB Quote
Toastie Posted May 8 Posted May 8 7 hours ago, legoROBOLAB said: I can't put here photos... but it can communicate with LPT1 till LPT4 for printer And these are true parallel ("Centronics") ports, correct? Best Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted May 9 Posted May 9 (edited) If it refers to the emulator, I don't really know. It would be best if one of you who uses interface A could confirm it. Evank tried using this software with the emulator, as it is mentioned on a website. And he had some problems with the software's stability. Whether it allows for full communication using the emulator with interface A, I don't know. Perhaps Evank can clarify this for us when he can. Finally, Patrick Bastings' website shows the LEGO Control Logo floppy disk and the LEGO TC Controller floppy disk. Everything I've written lately is about the LEGO Control Logo. The TC-Controller floppy disk appears to be written in Norwegian. Edited May 9 by legoROBOLAB Quote
Toastie Posted May 9 Posted May 9 7 hours ago, legoROBOLAB said: If it refers to the emulator, I don't really know. It would be best if one of you who uses interface A could confirm it. Well, it certainly depends on the machine you are running the emulator on. If it is a "modern" Windows computer, LPT is gone since long. There is simply no parallel port anymore. On an "older" machine that actually has one or more parallel hardware ports, it may work, should the emulator get through. DOSBox-X on a Windows machine does have access to parallel ports, when there are any. On my Dell Precision running Win11 there a) are no parallel nor serial ports - there is USB, and thus b) any emulator can't do anything parallel-wise. Regarding serial, it does work using USB2Serial adapters, as they create/represent a COM port - which vintage software does also know. This is why Control Lab for DOS runs flawlessly on a Win11 machine using DOSBox-X as emulator. You are running the Beep emulator on a machine that may or may not have hardware parallel ports. If it does, then the LEGO software may work with Int.A. If it does not have that, it won't work. I can't test anything related to Int.A emulator-wise, as my machines don't have parallel ports. OK, the vintage IBM-XT has, but it can't run any modern emulator software. It can handle Int.A by default :D Best Thorsten Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted May 10 Posted May 10 Sure. Luckily I have several PCs (5 old PCs to work including a Mac). Some run on Windows 95, two others run on Windows XP. And I have one to boot with MS-DOS. This way, both the ports and the processor speed are always adequate. In my daily life I use several tablets, mainly Lenovo and a Surface. I'm a teacher and I have tablets for my students. I decided to keep these pieces that were going to the trash, just to work with LEGO programs. I'm old and I don't have much patience for configurations. I've been working with PCs since 1980... I'm really out of patience. Quote
amine Posted May 31 Posted May 31 On 1/18/2026 at 4:11 PM, legoROBOLAB said: It seems incomplete... Robolab 1.5 is much more extensive. Am I doing something wrong? Here is an new french manual https://archive.org/details/lego-dacta-systemes-programmables-1 Quote
amine Posted July 3 Posted July 3 On 1/15/2026 at 8:42 AM, legoROBOLAB said: That's awesome!!!!!! I'm going to test it with my interface B.... Congratulations, the idea is very original.... and it comes at a good time, since LEGO is discontinuing Spike this year and for now only the LEGO Science kits remain.... This way we continue to have at our fingertips all the good things that LEGO Education has done over the years. Congratulations again!!!! P.S: I'll be sharing this achievement on my blog... even those without an interface will be able to see the program. https://archive.org/details/logo-writer-activity-cards-part-1/mode/1up Hello here are the logowriter activity cards Quote
legoROBOLAB Posted July 9 Posted July 9 Amine, thank you very much for the documents and software you’ve uploaded to archive.org. It seems LEGODACTA took different approaches to its products depending on whether they were for Europe, Australia, or the USA. That is why your documents are so helpful in filling the gaps regarding that era. Quote
evank Posted July 13 Posted July 13 On 4/23/2026 at 3:55 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! I'm not sure if I already replied -- 99% certain I have this, just have to scan it. Quote
amine Posted Sunday at 05:20 PM Posted Sunday at 05:20 PM On 7/9/2026 at 6:10 PM, legoROBOLAB said: Amine, thank you very much for the documents and software you’ve uploaded to archive.org. It seems LEGODACTA took different approaches to its products depending on whether they were for Europe, Australia, or the USA. That is why your documents are so helpful in filling the gaps regarding that era. The 5 LogoWriter Notebooks https://archive.org/details/learning-with-logowriter-1 https://archive.org/details/learning-with-logowriter-2 https://archive.org/details/learning-with-logowriter-3 https://archive.org/details/learning-with-logo-writer-4 https://archive.org/details/learning-with-logo-writer-5 Quote
TechnicRCRacer Posted yesterday at 08:25 PM Posted yesterday at 08:25 PM Not sure if this has already been found, but I got disk 1 of the English version of the Control Lab 1.0 software for Windows 95 in a bulk lot buy. Here’s the Archive link: Archive Quote
amine Posted yesterday at 10:14 PM Posted yesterday at 10:14 PM 1 hour ago, TechnicRCRacer said: Not sure if this has already been found, but I got disk 1 of the English version of the Control Lab 1.0 software for Windows 95 in a bulk lot buy. Here’s the Archive link: Archive Thank you so much !!! Quote
alexGS Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 3 hours ago, TechnicRCRacer said: Not sure if this has already been found, but I got disk 1 of the English version of the Control Lab 1.0 software for Windows 95 in a bulk lot buy. Here’s the Archive link: Archive Thanks - it would be good to know if there are differences from the one in Evan’s Vintage LEGO Robotics archive, I recall that one has some useful example files included https://archive.org/details/lego-dacta_202012 Edited 23 hours ago by alexGS Quote
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