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FlyingFishFingerFlyingFishFinger Posts: 461
edited 2006-05-18 17:17 in General Discussion
Eeh...I have an old 386 on my workbench in the garage (my parents won't allow anything else there) that I wish to use to program my Stamps.
I have an old DOS editor, but it cannot recognize the hardware when connected, although all my other comps can, running the newer Windows Editors
...??
Rafael
PS: I had it working a long tim ago, but it apparently doesn't like new stamps shocked.gif

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  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-05-14 23:09
    Do you have the right editor for the right Stamp? There were separate DOS programs for the Stamp 1 and the various flavors of the BASIC Stamp 2. Note that you'll have to use PBASIC 2.0 commands (only) for BASIC Stamp 2 modules

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  • FlyingFishFingerFlyingFishFinger Posts: 461
    edited 2006-05-15 23:10
    Hi!
    I actually have the right version, but I want to try downloading the software again, only I can't find them.
    Did you guys at Parallax take them off the site?
    Rafael
  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-05-16 03:07
    We did -- don't support them any more. Beau has post somewhere in the forums with the DOS editors attached (do a search on his name).

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  • FlyingFishFingerFlyingFishFinger Posts: 461
    edited 2006-05-16 03:09
    Ah ok
    Thanks

    Hm...it still cant find the Stamp. I put it on this comp (XP) to compare it to the Windows one...That one can identify the Stamp, the DOS one can't. How do you tell the DOS Editor which port it's supposed to look on? Or does it check all of them automatically?
    Basically my project is stuck until I get that to work because I dont want to carry stuff back and forth once I start building the next part of the board.

    Rafael

    Post Edited (flyingfishfinger) : 5/16/2006 3:49:38 AM GMT
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2006-05-16 10:29
    It definitely won't find anything on the XP machine as WinXP won't allow it that much control of the serial port.

    Which Stamp are you using?

    And which port on the PC?
    (COM1/COM2, and is it a 9pin or 25pin D-sub)

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  • FlyingFishFingerFlyingFishFinger Posts: 461
    edited 2006-05-16 22:10
    It's a BS2p40
    I have 2 COM ports, the Windows Editors all use COM1 (This is the machine with WinXP)
    The other comp (the one with DOS) has 1 serial port, which I defined as COM1
    All of them are 9-pin.
    Thanks
    Rafael
  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-05-17 16:14
    I'm not sure we have a DOS program that works with the BS2p40. Unlike the Windows program which works with everything, the DOS programs were done individually (everything after the BS2sx was simply for testing before integration into Windows).

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  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2006-05-17 17:58
    I had no problems programming my BS2p24 with the DOS program. I even used it on an HP LX100 clamshell(DOS based PDA). All right, it tended to hang after programming the BS2p, particularly if I used the Debug functions(wouldn't close the screen and return me to editing for a few minutes.), but I attribute that to less than perfect compatibility on the HPs side...

    It even ran in XTM(an IBM PC XT emulator I sometimes use on my Psion netBook), but as serial ports didn't work correctly there, I never used it for programming the BS2p that way.
    (I still have it on the virtual 'boot disk' for the emulator as it's such a compact and capable editor)

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  • FlyingFishFingerFlyingFishFinger Posts: 461
    edited 2006-05-18 03:57
    Still doesn't work...when I press Alt-I, it immediately says "No Hardware Found" - which is kinda dumb, because I only have a DOS environment in my programming area.
    cry.gifcry.gifcry.gif
    Rafael
  • ellizardellizard Posts: 106
    edited 2006-05-18 17:17
    HI

    check the serial port for proper electrical operation.
    It happened to me with the fisrt BOE and an old Olivetti Pentium I,
    the serial port was damaged in an other experiment and the result was
    hardware not found, both in win 95 and in dos environment.

    hope this helps..................

    Stefano Caruso
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