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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2012, 10:15:25 am »
Yep, I'm referring to Punix. I don't mention much about the VT100 emulator, but here's the Punix thread: http://ourl.ca/9392
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #31 on: April 18, 2012, 10:20:05 am »
Quote from: MPoupe on June 24, 2011, 05:21:14 am
If you try fxterm with Casio serial cable, you may find, that stream PC->fxterm goes OK, but fxterm->PC doesn't. The problem is in DTR signal on COM port, which must be set ON. The cable (probably) uses it to get power.
I used following (and very dirty workaround):
Linux is running in vmware (which run on windows), it has serial port, which is configured as named pipe (\\.\pipe\seriak), vmware end is server,other end is an application.
On windows run proxy - attached application, which forwards data between pipe and real COM1 port. The proxy ensures, that DTR signal is ON, so it works.

This is very dirty solution, proxy is very dirty software, but at least it works for testing:-)
I hope there is a way to configure Linux to set DTR signal ON, I did a very quick research, but found nothing:-(
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Can you connect with the USB cable?
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2012, 10:32:49 am »
Quote from: flyingfisch on April 18, 2012, 10:20:05 am
Can you connect with the USB cable?
No.
1. I do not know how to communicate on USB (do we know such syscalls ?)
2. The device (calculator) must emulate usb->serial convertor so linux machine will make console for it. This would probably require low level programming of USB controller on the calculator. Do you know how ? I do not :-(
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #33 on: April 18, 2012, 10:38:34 am »
I do not know how, unfortunately.

So, I have to have a way to connect to my computer with the COMM cable?
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #34 on: April 18, 2012, 11:51:37 am »
Quote from: flyingfisch on April 18, 2012, 10:38:34 am
So, I have to have a way to connect to my computer with the COMM cable?
Yes.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #35 on: April 18, 2012, 02:41:45 pm »
I think I have this cable, because it came with my FX-9850G, but when I tried to connect my 9850G a few years ago, it was not detected.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #36 on: April 18, 2012, 05:19:02 pm »
Quote from: helder7 on April 18, 2012, 02:33:50 pm
this cables work



Oh, wow never saw one of those before.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #37 on: August 27, 2012, 05:40:04 am »
I released new version at my page http://martin.poupe.org/casio/
News: 4 embedded fonts, menu for communication parameters.
Source code included.
The simulator variant uses windows pipe instead of COM port - I used it to communicate with Linux running in VMWare
« Last Edit: August 27, 2012, 05:42:27 am by MPoupe »
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #38 on: August 27, 2012, 05:29:47 pm »
Nice state machine! I've been thinking about adding character tables as you did for a few different states (ground, ESC, CSI, etc), but I worried about how much space those will take. Mine currently tests each character (eg, ch == 0x18 || ch == 0x1a || ...). But now I'm thinking the size of character tables shouldn't matter that much; it'll add probably a couple kilobytes or so in ROM but should execute a little faster (which I think matters more than ROM usage).

I'm amused at the way you defined your fonts in source code with defines like _X_X_X (I defined my fonts in the binary PBM image format and automatically convert them to C source code when the software is built).

I'm still jealous of the hardware UART and the higher resolution color screen on the Casio. All I've got is a proprietary serial protocol (TI D-BUS) and a crappy low-resolution monochrome screen. :/
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #39 on: August 28, 2012, 07:06:26 am »
Nice see a update :)

Unfortunately, I will not be able to test this new update, I have no cable. I tested the initial version with a cable borrowed.

is possibel to make a homemade cable? Official cables are expensive and rare, they cost 37€ + taxes.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #40 on: August 28, 2012, 08:57:04 am »
Quote from: helder7 on August 28, 2012, 07:06:26 am
Unfortunately, I will not be able to test this new update, I have no cable. I tested the initial version with a cable borrowed.
is possibel to make a homemade cable? Official cables are expensive and rare, they cost 37€ + taxes.
You can test it partially without nay cable. Run fxTerm on any COMM settings and select local echo. You will be able to write letters on the screen.
BTW: I never tried it ;-)
Cable: do you have USB->RS232 convertor? I think it contains USB->uart (TTL) converter and TTL->RS232 (max232) converter. If you remove the second convertor and replace connector by 2.5 mm jack, it should work.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #41 on: August 28, 2012, 10:14:04 am »
Glad to see this software updated. Also I wish TI cables worked with Casio calcs, because there are some tutorials on Google (or ticalc.org) on how to build $5 link cables.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2012, 10:15:54 am by DJ_O »
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #42 on: August 28, 2012, 10:33:04 am »
this ti cables 2,5 mm to usb works?

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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #43 on: August 28, 2012, 10:54:20 am »
Quote from: helder7 on August 28, 2012, 10:33:04 am
this ti cables 2,5 mm to usb works?
I do not know the schematics, but I think no. I mean this: http://pinouts.ru/Converters/usb_serial_adapter_pinout.shtml
Imagine you remove MAX213 and wire signals (TXD and RXD) from FT232AM to the calculator.
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Re: FXTerm - VT100 terminal emulator for Casio fx cg
« Reply #44 on: August 28, 2012, 10:59:45 am »
I think an Arduino would work, it have a build-in USB-to-TTL converter, so you would plug the 2.5mm jack to pins 0 and 1 and it would work. I didn't tested it though, as I don't have any cable to cut in half.

EDIT: It's doable, you don't even have to load a program in the Arduino, I would need to know whether the tip or the ring is TX or RX. The sleeve is most likely the ground.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2012, 11:31:15 am by Juju »
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