The SilentRadio LED Sign

[boarder3]

I purchased this off ebay and it works through dos and has to be booted from floppy no control at all and hard to use. Is there a way to use this through vixen?
The SilentRadio LED Sign

[Mufassa]

Well I am sure it COULD be done. Not by me but here is a few places to start.

This one might work! (it has the software there on the page runs in DOS you might be able to fire that off from Vixen via the launcher) Could be pretty easy in fact!
http://www.dickwick.com/sign/

This one has some C code they did for linux to calculate the checksums etc to get info to the board.
http://www.kuci.org/~jburley/LED/

Here are some other links.
http://devito-p.tripod.com/silentradio/



You may have already seen these but figured I would pass them along

--Greg

BTW it runs on a 6502 ahhh the memories..

[boarder3]

I seen those but cant get them to work only dos one but i have to boot up my computer through a floppy and thats how it runs it wont work any other way if you can figure it out please let me know. I would like to at least be able to run it through a dos prompt from xp

[Mufassa]

Yeah sorry I noticed that after I posted and havent had time to get back. It seems to be a 16 bit application. I even tried to run it in Windows 95 compatibility mode and that didnt work. You might be able to run it in a VM or something on XP but I dont know how you would trigger it exactly. But if you are running in a VM you could almost run Linux and try and use that guys code to figure it out.

It might be worth trying to get in touch with one of those guys and see if they have had any recent progress or new ideas. They have done quite a bit of leg work already and know a lot about the hardware and software.

--Greg