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Manfred and Christian Fischer
SimpleDigitalLocomotive can control digital model railway locomotives function models and accessories via serial ports on a Mac.
This simple program can control digital model railway systems compatible to the 6050-syntax using the serial port of a Mac. Locomotives, function models and accesories. Mac's standard serial port was the RS.422 (8-pin) instead of the PC-world's RS.232 (9-pin). After the release of the first iMac and G3 blue/white this serial port was no longer implemented by Apple. Macs of today have only USB as their standard serial interface. The Digital Interface
This simple program can control digital model railway systems compatible to the 6050-syntax using the serial port of a Mac. Locomotives, function models and accesories. Mac's standard serial port was the RS.422 (8-pin) instead of the PC-world's RS.232 (9-pin). After the release of the first iMac and G3 blue/white this serial port was no longer implemented by Apple. Macs of today have only USB as their standard serial interface. The Digital Interface
What's New
Version 0.6a01:
- Device added: CC-Schnitte-2/GleisBox-2 via VCP-driver and D2XX-driver (incl. experimentally GleisReporterCS1 sensor support).
- CC-Schnitte2: requesting some mfx-CVs (name, functions, ECoS-symbol), delay time set to 2 seconds between two reads.
- "Init" window: more status informations for CS2 and CC-Schnitte-2 (additional drawer window via new button "More…").
- "Init" window: ECoS/CS1R v3.4.3: "Shut down" button added.
- "Init window": port's popupmenu language change debugged.
- "Statistics": telling whether D2XX-library is found or not.
- "Vehicle table": parsing CS2-mfx-bind reply.
- "Vehicle table": 3rd and 4th address added.
- "Vehicle table": column containing direction and speed added.
- "Vehicle table": missing "is changed"-indication after reading loco entries from CS1/ECoS debugged.
- CS2: parsing incoming loco emergency stop as speed=0.
- CS2: parsing of mfx-bind and some mfx-CV replies (name, functions, symbol).
- CS2: parsing of config status extended to all "request channels". CS2: experimentally direct sensor support for GleisReporterCS1.
- "Preferences": function icon lists updated to ECoS v3.4.0 / CS2 v1.6.4 or newer.
- "CV-prog" window: Tx. PIC-Hobby-decoder added.
- "CV-prog" window: for CS2 and CC-Schnitte: variable delay time between DCC-CV-reading commands.
- "Sensor list": show/act only on sensor state changes.
- i386 app: drawer window problem workaround.
Version 0.6a01:
- Device added: CC-Schnitte-2/GleisBox-2 via VCP-driver and D2XX-driver (incl. experimentally GleisReporterCS1 sensor support).
- CC-Schnitte2: requesting some mfx-CVs (name, functions, ECoS-symbol), delay time set to 2 seconds between two reads.
- "Init" window: more status informations for CS2 and CC-Schnitte-2 (additional drawer window via new button "More…").
- "Init" more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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| Date:27 Dec 2011 |
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SimpleDigitalLocomotive can control digital model railway locomotives function models and accessories via serial ports on a Mac.
This simple program can control digital model railway systems compatible to the 6050-syntax using the serial port of a Mac. Locomotives, function models and accesories. Mac's standard serial port was the RS.422 (8-pin) instead of the PC-world's RS.232 (9-pin). After the release of the first iMac and G3 blue/white this serial port was no longer implemented by Apple. Macs of today have only USB as their standard serial interface. The Digital Interface 6050 / 6051 has its own serial port (DIN 8-pin) and is shipped with a cable RS.232-to-Digital-Interface-6051. Other digital controlling devices (for example the IB) have built in a RS.232 modem-serial port. A connection to the Mac is then possible with a standard Mac-modem-cable.
To make this program work on modern Macs you need an USB-to-serial converter. Keyspan (http://www.keyspan.com/) has developed an USB-to-serial converter (with UniversalBinary driver) which will work under MacOS-X. We recommend to use this one. Of course you can use an older Macintosh with built-in serial ports. The program will even work under MacOS-X 10.2.6 in classic-mode if a serial port is connected to the Mac which is recognized by MacOS 9.2.2 (working example: mini-iDock).
The next hardware you will need is a suitable cable to connect the RS.422 / RS.232 to Digital-Interface 6051. There are several sources on the internet to retrieve informations on how to patch the cable:
This simple program can control digital model railway systems compatible to the 6050-syntax using the serial port of a Mac. Locomotives, function models and accesories. Mac's standard serial port was the RS.422 (8-pin) instead of the PC-world's RS.232 (9-pin). After the release of the first iMac and G3 blue/white this serial port was no longer implemented by Apple. Macs of today have only USB as their standard serial interface. The Digital Interface 6050 / 6051 has its own serial port (DIN 8-pin) and is shipped with a cable RS.232-to-Digital-Interface-6051. Other digital controlling devices (for example the IB) have built in a RS.232 modem-serial port. A connection to the Mac is then possible with a standard Mac-modem-cable.
To make this program work on modern Macs you need an USB-to-serial converter. Keyspan (http://www.keyspan.com/) has developed an USB-to-serial converter (with UniversalBinary driver) which will work under MacOS-X. We recommend to use this one. Of course you can use an older Macintosh with built-in serial ports. The program will even work under MacOS-X 10.2.6 in classic-mode if a serial port is connected to the Mac which is recognized by MacOS 9.2.2 (working example: mini-iDock).
The next hardware you will need is a suitable cable to connect the RS.422 / RS.232 to Digital-Interface 6051. There are several sources on the internet to retrieve informations on how to patch the cable:
- http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/cm/stack.html
- http://members.tripod.com/~Bardioc/Seite13/index-13.html
- http://artm-friends.at/rm/train/
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M-Rick rated on 06 Jan 2011