Dacta Control Lab Software

[legoROBOLAB]

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 Friday at 12:13 PM by legoROBOLAB

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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?

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Thorsten

[legoROBOLAB]

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 Friday at 01:53 PM by legoROBOLAB

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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?

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Thorsten

[legoROBOLAB]

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 17 hours ago by legoROBOLAB

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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

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Thorsten