[sebhc] Success with tapes

[Carroll Waddell]

The H19 emulator is very primitive. The only thing you can change at 
present is the baud rate. What I would like to do (now that I have tapes 
working again) is to upgrade my emulation program to also emulate 2 
cassette players. I would have to bypass the audio conversion part of 
the H8-5 and connect directly to the usart. I thought it would be nice 
to have a "cassette system" running at 4800 baud. Lee Hart asked a 
couple of good questions about the emulation. It does not emulate ANSI 
but only Heath. I am going to completely rewrite the program and also 
have it emulate the switches that control the terminal. I really hadn't 
thought about graphics, but I'll look into that. I just got my H19 
terminal book out and will look at how the terminal operates.
I will upload both the emulation EXE and source code, and will also 
upload the program that I used to create the tapes from the image files 
in my PC. Should be able to do that in a day or two.
Carroll

Jack Rubin wrote:

>I'd very much like a copy of your H19 emulator - I've been messing
>around with Kermit but I'd like something a little less cumbersome. 
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>Please upload it when you get a chance. 
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>Thanks!
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>Jack
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Carroll Waddell
>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 10:25 PM
>>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>>Subject: Re: [sebhc] Success with tapes
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>>Yes. These were the files I uploaded. The method is as 
>>follows: Connect your PC COMM port 2 to the H8-5 serial port. 
>>On the H8-5 board, change the switch from NORM to INTERCHANGE (this 
>>swaps the TAPE and SERIAL ports)
>>On my PC, I have a program (I'll be glad to get it to anyone 
>>who needs 
>>it) that I tell what I want to send to port 2.
>>Then just press the LOAD button on the H8, and it will read the data 
>>coming from the PC just exactly as if it were a tape.
>>Then return the switch from INTERCHANGE to NORM, have a tape recorder 
>>connected to the H8, and press the DUMP key. This writes the 
>>image from the H8 to tape. It's really quite simple. I also 
>>have a PC program that emulates the Heath H19 terminal if anyone 
>>wants a copy of it.
>>Carroll
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>>Jack Rubin wrote:
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>>>Congratulations! What method did you use? PC WAV files to 
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>>tape to H8-5? 
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>>>Were these the PID files you uploaded to the SEBHC archive?
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>>>Jack
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
>>>>Carroll Waddell
>>>>Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 8:05 PM
>>>>To: sebhc at staunch89er.com
>>>>Subject: [sebhc] Success with tapes
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>>>>
>>>>I've finally gotten old tape images restored from my PC back
>>>>to tapes. 
>>>>Just loaded BH Basic, Extended BH Basic, and Hangman. I 
>>>>haven't played 
>>>>that game in 30 years.
>>>>Carroll
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