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BS1 DOS Programming Failure

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2002-04-02 02:27 in General Discussion
Hello. I am trying to program the BS1 and am not able to program it
on any machine faster than a Pentium 90 running Windows 95. I have
tried to program the stamp with a P133(Windows NT), P300(Win2k), P300
(DOS6.22), P833(Win98), P833(DOS6.22), but didn't have any luck. Is
there a fix to the stamp.exe software. It doesn't seem to me that
software was written with multiple speed machines in mind. It
appears that the timing on the parallel port is too fast for the
stamp programming interface to understand. Thanks in advance.

Scott

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-03-29 11:54
    I doubt the BS1 system will work on NT/W2K/XP because of
    hardware access limits.
    I have a package I downloaded a while back that is supposed to let
    you program BS1s via the serial port via a MAX232 circuit.
    >
    > Hello. I am trying to program the BS1 and am not able to program it
    > on any machine faster than a Pentium 90 running Windows 95. I have
    > tried to program the stamp with a P133(Windows NT), P300(Win2k), P300
    > (DOS6.22), P833(Win98), P833(DOS6.22), but didn't have any luck. Is
    > there a fix to the stamp.exe software. It doesn't seem to me that
    > software was written with multiple speed machines in mind. It
    > appears that the timing on the parallel port is too fast for the
    > stamp programming interface to understand. Thanks in advance.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-03-29 18:44
    Charles E. Fromage says:


    Works fine on my PIII 750 Dell laptop as well as my generic AMD K6-2 450
    desktop and my AST PI 100 laptop. The issue may be with the parallel ports
    and / or port settings on your other boxes.

    Original Message

    > Hello. I am trying to program the BS1 and am not able to program it
    > on any machine faster than a Pentium 90 running Windows 95. I have
    > tried to program the stamp with a P133(Windows NT), P300(Win2k), P300
    > (DOS6.22), P833(Win98), P833(DOS6.22), but didn't have any luck. Is
    > there a fix to the stamp.exe software. It doesn't seem to me that
    > software was written with multiple speed machines in mind. It
    > appears that the timing on the parallel port is too fast for the
    > stamp programming interface to understand. Thanks in advance.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2002-04-02 02:27
    This is very encouraging! I am also having trouble programming my basic stamp 1
    with my pentium 186 running
    Windoze 95. Can you send me the information on the program you downloaded?
    Also what is a MAX232 circuit and
    where can I get one?
    -Steven

    Mike DeMetz wrote:

    > I doubt the BS1 system will work on NT/W2K/XP because of
    > hardware access limits.
    > I have a package I downloaded a while back that is supposed to let
    > you program BS1s via the serial port via a MAX232 circuit.
    > >
    > > Hello. I am trying to program the BS1 and am not able to program it
    > > on any machine faster than a Pentium 90 running Windows 95. I have
    > > tried to program the stamp with a P133(Windows NT), P300(Win2k), P300
    > > (DOS6.22), P833(Win98), P833(DOS6.22), but didn't have any luck. Is
    > > there a fix to the stamp.exe software. It doesn't seem to me that
    > > software was written with multiple speed machines in mind. It
    > > appears that the timing on the parallel port is too fast for the
    > > stamp programming interface to understand. Thanks in advance.
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