Win XP <-> Interface
#1
Posted 14 October 2002 - 05:09 PM
There obviously is a problem with Win XP and cables but since I am not a programmer and don't know if that problem can be solved (plug in, new program, new settings) or not.
I have no WXP myself so I can't talk from experience but I see that Win XP is coming and if there's no way for new casio owners to get their casios hooked up to the pc this community will be pointless sometime
Are there any ideas? (Petition to Casio to release FA-124..
Stefan
#2
Posted 14 October 2002 - 10:29 PM
I would appreciate to know more details about that "case".
TNX, Stefan
#3
Posted 15 October 2002 - 05:42 AM
sorry, but i can't say many to you, because i had win xp installed some month ago and i wasn't contently and i returned to win98.
i have a self-made cable and i used the FA-123.
Could it be that it don't work at you because of the different revision of win xp? did you installed all avaiable windows-updates? which motherboard with which chipset do you have?
bye
rstweb
#4 Guest_Bytefish Productions_*
Posted 15 October 2002 - 09:27 AM
I have Windows 2000 myself and it just worked fine. (i dunno where my cable is )
Ok it didnt really work 100% i got a transmit error... but this wasnt really important, cause the programs were transmitted correctly.
I thought win xp has the nt5 kernel too?!
Hmmm no idea sorry.
#5
Posted 15 October 2002 - 12:29 PM
#6
Posted 15 October 2002 - 05:04 PM
it depends on which windows xp you have:I thought win xp has the nt5 kernel too?!
windows xp home edition or
windows xp professionel
home edition works has a improved win98 kernel.
professionel has the nt5 kernel.
bye
rstweb
#7
Posted 15 October 2002 - 08:43 PM
#8
Posted 16 October 2002 - 01:39 PM
This is NOT true!home edition works has a improved win98 kernel.
professionel has the nt5 kernel.
Both XP Home and XP Professional have the same kernel, XP Home have some additional code, which disables some features (for example it has hardcoded:
if(logon_username = "Administrator" && NotSafeMode()) then DisableLogon() ).
#9
Posted 16 October 2002 - 05:23 PM
on the home edition games, who are only avaiable for win98 and compatible works fine, but programs for nt don't work.
on the professional edition programs for win98 and compatible don't work but programs only for nt works fine.
home has the same bugs like win98 and professional has the same bugs like nt. but professional hasn't the same problems like home (ok, some are the same but not all! the most aren't equal).
bye
rstweb
#10
Posted 16 October 2002 - 09:14 PM
#11
Posted 16 October 2002 - 11:04 PM
but why does games, who works on win98 and not on win2000 on winxp home???
bye
rstweb
#12
Posted 17 October 2002 - 01:13 PM
#13
Posted 17 October 2002 - 04:19 PM
the next time i met a microsoft-licensed admin, i will ask him what the difference between both is.
bye
rstweb
#14
Posted 17 October 2002 - 04:48 PM
#15
Posted 17 October 2002 - 06:47 PM
They were wrongbut only because the kernel is patched by the service pack! i asked at 2 (!) computer shops what the difference between professional and home is and i got the same answer! (home - 98 kernel; professional - nt kernel)
the next time i met a microsoft-licensed admin, i will ask him what the difference between both is.
bye
rstweb
98 is based on dos and you can't find dos from xp.
#16 Guest_Bytefish Productions_*
Posted 17 October 2002 - 06:48 PM
windows 2000 is the best of all windows. =)
#17 Guest_MathManiac_*
Posted 17 October 2002 - 09:23 PM
the only thig that don't work on those windows versions are the Casio Official Language packs.
#18
Posted 18 October 2002 - 06:20 AM
sure? it isn't a problem to get DOS from XP. Search a little in the internet and you will find something!98 is based on dos and you can't find dos from xp.
it is the same at win me. microsoft told that there's no no DOS avaiable, but after some little modifications - voila, there's DOS!
bye
rstweb
#19
Posted 18 October 2002 - 11:31 AM
#20 Guest_Bytefish Productions_*
Posted 18 October 2002 - 11:38 AM
He means something else i think.
The coolest thing about nt and all others is that you can have the windows 3.1 shell with some little modifications. =)
#21
Posted 18 October 2002 - 08:26 PM
i meant something else, but i don't know how i could it better describe.
bye
rstweb
#22
Posted 19 October 2002 - 06:42 AM
#23
Posted 19 October 2002 - 09:04 AM
bye
rstweb
#24
Posted 20 October 2002 - 01:30 AM
==========> Micro$hit never create it always steal ! (that could be their slogan !).
#25
Posted 20 October 2002 - 09:11 AM
no comment to micro$oft.
bye
rstweb
#26
Posted 20 October 2002 - 04:07 PM
With 5 people saying that their cable works with Win XP there obviously isn't a problem... right?
I sold an interface to somebody who now claims it not to be working. Since I never tested the software on XP systems but surely tested that interface before I shipped it I assumed the problem to be Win XP.
My question to those 5 people is what software they used, what kind of cable they used (commercial, self-made) and if it was just as easy as installing and running the software.
Thanks!
#27
Posted 20 October 2002 - 04:48 PM
I have Win2k as OS and the communication worked flawlessly. I use the FX-Link-Kit and it installs some drivers so that the software can access the comport - that's what I guess. It worked with the Add-in Installer and FA-123 as well.
But now it doesn't. I rebooted, reinstalled the software and rechecked the comport settings but it just doesn't work anymore.
Any idea which service must be active and how the ports must be configured (what baudrate)?
thanx
-Misel
#28 Guest_Bytefish Productions_*
Posted 20 October 2002 - 04:59 PM
#29
Posted 20 October 2002 - 06:27 PM
i used a self-made cable (a modification from the one with MAX232 that is avaiable at casiocorner) and, i'm not sure, but it hink it was this software, FA-123.
it was relatively easy. i made some mistakes at the installation but then it worked.
bye
rstweb
#30 Guest_Guest_*
Posted 21 October 2002 - 09:21 AM
Okay, that's the case I heard of. MAX compatible interface with FA-123 / CasioCom link software. And it didn't work.to bcgsr:
i used a self-made cable (a modification from the one with MAX232 that is avaiable at casiocorner) and, i'm not sure, but it hink it was this software, FA-123.
Now the problem is to find out what the reason is that it works for some people and for some not.
#31
Posted 21 October 2002 - 09:39 AM
bye
rstweb
#32
Posted 21 October 2002 - 01:20 PM
Here is missy06, I have the problem with WinXP Prof. and the interface from BCGSR.
Answers to the questions "Which WinXP-version has which kernel?" or "Is WinXP Home like Win98?" do you find on this microsoft-sites perhaps:
http://www.microsoft...storyintro.mspx (English)
http://www.microsoft...story/zeit1.htm (German)
http://www.microsoft...o/vergleich.htm (detailed comparison with all Win-versions and WinXP Prof, sorry German)
http://www.microsoft...e/vergleich.htm (detailed comparison with Win9x, WinME and WinXP Home, sorry German)
http://www.microsoft...p/vergleich.htm (detailed comparison with WinXP Prof and WinXP Home, sorry German)
Markus.
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