- #DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI SERIAL#
- #DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI UPDATE#
- #DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI SOFTWARE#
That leaves keeping an old laptop around with obsolete Windows for this purpose (which my company does, and FedExes it around where it is needed), or running in a VM in a current Windows environment (which has been problematic), or trying it in Linux using dosbox.
#DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI SOFTWARE#
It has a vendor-specific protocol, so I can't use commercially available (or Open Source) software as a substitute for this program. But these units are old enough that RS-232 was the method of communication (including important features like backing up or restoring files in the event of hardware replacement or other failure requires it). I need to talk to older robots that customers still have running production.
#DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI UPDATE#
I travel a lot for work, and often long hours, so when I get home, and I get the chance to play I can update until project completion.Īs for the legacy software, I can imagine this falls in where a large number do. I thought it would be interesting to share a real-world application in (near) real time. To be honest I am more curious to the specific of this antiquated software you need to maintain Vs any details of how you are setting up in linux. Just a good reason to start a discussion etc. There were no posts in this forum (other than the pinned "Which Distro" forum) in two weeks. It makes me more than a little sad to see the Neowin Linux forums so barren. (maybe if this goes well, I could get a small LCD display and micro keyboard to integrate into the project.) But, for the guys in my group that like to drive the ship and change options on the fly in the field, I think a VNC connection would suit just fine. I intend to have the Pi auto-login and start the legacy program when booted, so it should work as-is. Since dosbox seems to require running in a GUI window (I may be wrong on this, but at first look, it appears to), I am installing a light window manger - fluxbox. I am starting with the "lite" edition of Raspbian Stretch, and doing things like setting up an SSH server to login from a PC over ethernet (for in the field troubleshooting, should there be problems), and VNC server for using when the Pi is running dosbox. This can be shut off and repurposed, and I am currently doing so.
#DOSBOX FOR RASPBERRY PI SERIAL#
I have a Raspberry Pi B, and it has a serial port (required for this legacy program), but it defaults to spitting out kernel messages at boot and being a TTY for emergency login purposes. It also had other issues with reliability that other people in my department have run into when trying to get it working. Our IT department has tried to get an Oracle VM to run virtual XP, and that worked briefly, but was terribly temperamental and even having the external USB/Ethernet adapter plugged or not plugged would cause the VM to fail. I don't have any questions, I am just posting about a project I am starting to run an orphaned DOS program that could run in Windows up to XP, but work isn't providing the hardware/software needed any more, except one legacy laptop that needs to keep getting shipped out as-needed.
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