[Techtoolslist] Data I/O 29B on Windows 7?

[Andrew Welburn]

Just throwing my two pence in... i've just retired my windows XP PC now 
because i tried out DOSbox on my win7x64 machine (which has an old 
fashioned DB9 serial port!) and it works great.

On an older pc i had the same issue i'm getting now, if you turn the 29b 
on, and let it go into 'remote mode' and dont send it any commands in 
the first 30 seconds, you'll get an 'i/o timeout error 46' on the 
display, so you have to reboot it. Just turn the 29b on, run promlink 
and hit ctrl+p, this will just blip a command to the programmer to stop 
it timing out. The programmer is then good for the rest of the time you 
choose to use it, whether its doing stuff or idle, it wont timeout 
again. Strange little quirk, but i'm very happy it works great on DOSbox 
under win7 x64, very simple to setup, just run the config batch file and 
configure the com port and you're done! I mount d:\ as my roms directory 
on my hard drive, but you have to remember that promlink/dosbox only 
sees the file listing as it was when the program was first run, if you 
add or move files around in windows then drop back into dosbox/promlink, 
it wont see the file changes..

enjoy!

Andrew Welburn
http://www.andys-arcade.com

On 22/06/2013 22:50, Joe Magiera wrote:

> I think this was asked before and I didn't have Windows 7 at the time so I

> didn't follow it, so I apologize, but I need to ask again.

>

>

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> Has anyone successfully got a Data I/O 29B to work on a Windows 7 machine?

> If so, any tips or tricks you can share that you had to do to get it to

> work?

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>

> Joe

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