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Serial port do not work in scientific equipment

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First post, by balachoff

Posted on 2016-02-22, 18:55

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Hi everyone!

I have spectrometer Carl Zeiss Specord M40, which is controlled through COM-port in MS-DOS. I tried to run the control program in Windows XP through DOSBox. The program works, but there was not connection through serial port. I configurated it (serial1=directserial realport:com1) without success. How can I solve this problem?

The program
https://yadi.sk/d/Vux5b5gjpKR9J

Reply 1 of 3, by hoserjoe

Posted on 2016-02-27, 09:10

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Have you tried vDOS? It's a newer DOSbox variant with access to hardware ports through Windows.

Reply 2 of 3, by Azarien

Posted on 2016-02-27, 17:14

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I haven't looked at the program, but you might have some success in running it on XP natively, without dosbox.

Reply 3 of 3, by mr_bigmouth_502

Posted on 2016-02-27, 21:12

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DosBox is made for running games, not mission-critical equipment, and as such its emulation is imperfect. To be honest, I wouldn't even trust vDOS if accurate calculations are essential. I'd set up a dedicated machine running an actual copy of MS-DOS or at the very least FreeDOS instead.

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