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@Bliss this will develop into the most powerful software for LEGO's interfaces and PBricks >ever<. Just imagining that I can use a PUp sensor on a simple hub, let's say the 2-port City hub, or the even more powerful but rather cheap 4-port Technic hub to control a 4.5V output on a Technic "machine" is breathtakingly nice! Instead of using two Int.A's to get 4 inputs, I could use a Technic hub and one Int.A ... Wow - this is crazy and opens uncountable options for new routes into machine control - using LEGO technology from 1986 to 2026 - and counting! I never expected something even remotely happening. Thank you very much!!! All the best Thorsten

Hello, not sure what you mean: Interface B is a serial device; I have it connected via Bluetooth to my computer and use @Bliss' LBlockly for programming. Does "mimicking" mean that you want lets say an Arduino or any other microcontroller board replacing Interface B and have access to it via BT? Best Thorsten

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

And these are true parallel ("Centronics") ports, correct? Best Thorsten

Photos: You need an outside hoster and link the photos here. On which machine are you running the emulator? Best Thorsten

Uhm - what exactly works? You are talking about the BBC Micro emulator, right? Best Thorsten

Well, @Bliss has developed a Blockly application, which runs either standalone or in the Chrome web browser. His application, which I highly recommend, supports Interface A, Interface B, RCX, Cybermaster, WeDo 1.0, and sending VLL codes (CodePilot and MicroScout): This is rather close to scratch, isn't it? Best Thorsten

That's the one I was referring to, see post above 2nd paragraph. In this book, the use IBM (compatible) PCs. Best Thorsten

Ah, I see! Thanks for the clarification! And yes, it really is expensive. For controlling my PoweredUp stuff, I am using the ESP32 Vroom Devkit 1 boards along with the LEGOino software Cornelius Munz has developed earlier; would that do the trick for the Wi-Fi application you are working on? If not, can you suggest appropriate ESP32 boards? There are soo many ... Best wishes, Thorsten

Hehe I believe my bb could work, but this household's mission control will definitely call this off Which is OK. Garden shed is leaking - so this needs WE attention including some funds released. All the best Thorsten

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

Technical regarding what? Best Thorsten

WHAT??? No way - it also runs on the C64??? This is crazy!!! Congratulations!!! Thorsten

I have the same feeling, but did not yet stress test. I shall do that over the weekend - if you leave V1 up until then, that is. Also, I like your V2 Arduino code much better than the V1 version. Regards Thorsten

Google says: ""Supra" is a Latin term meaning "above," "over," or "beyond" ... ". That was easy. Another one?