INFO FOR WIN2K FMS PARALLEL PORT DRIVER MAYBE? - check this info out you guys.

[d2tw4all]

Hey guys, I know FMS isn't open source but I ran across this link on the web that explains why working with windows NT/2000/XP IO ports are nasty and provides a neat little program that may help you make the parallel interface possible on win2k. Please check this link out and let me know if it is helpful!!!

http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm

[d2tw4all]

[Michael_Moeller]

I had a quick look aover it, but this doesn't help very much:

The FMS needs to be called by an interrupt, when the signal changes, PortTalk does only provide Port I/O operations. With Port I/O the FMS would have to be reading all the time the port to see when the signal changes, and there won't be any time left to calculate the graphics/flight.

The only usable solution would be writing a win 2000 device driver specially for the PPM interface. There is someone working on this, but there isn't a finished version yet. The idea is to write directly a joystick-driver for the PPM-interface, to use the interfaces also with other software.

Michael Möller

[d2tw4all]

Thanks for replying anyway, sorry it isn't helpful as it sure looked promising. I got your schematics for building the interface for the new b7 version but will that also work for b6?
D2.

[Michael_Moeller]

The new PIC interfaces won't work with FMS Beta 6, because they need special routines to be read. Only in the Beta 7 we have implemented these routines.

Michael Möller