Hi,
I'm new here ad new to PC 104. I have a PC104 system in front of me having:
- RS232 port
- MVB/CAN Bus interface
- Parallel port
- PS/2 keyboard port
- special connector to a touchscreen which i have (working!)
- some little rotary switch to dial in a address for something in hexadecimal (now it is 0xF and 0xF)
- a loudspeaker output
everything boots fine. Having DOS 6.22 installed. There is a Flash or similar memory acting as drive c: size is 8MB! RAM is 16MB I can use XMS with himem.sys
So what I have is a DOS 6.22 system with a nice touchscreen. My question is: I want to do something usefull with this. Something like a home automation controller. I can write software in c/c++, vb, c# and could go back to old qbasic, pascal times. So how can I build up a development environment for this PC104 device? How would you write a graphical user interface under DOS? Can I develop under WinXP and test my software in DOS? how can I transfer my program to the pc104 flash? There is interlnk/intersvr installed in the DOS maschine - I know this communication from old times but there must be a easier way. I don't want to disassemble the PC104 board stack to get access to the flash or "disk on flash" - even if I could how could I use this flash? Is it possible to use the MVB/CAN bus interface. I know nothing about this card, and I don't know how to control a interface which is not presenting itself to the OS like RS232, parallel etc. Same for the loudspeaker. Do I have to use qbasic or pascal on a winXP maschine to write my program, or is there a framework for graphical interfaces under DOS which is easy to learn. Should I install a very small installation of Linux? How do I have access to the bios?
Sorry for all those questions, I want to handicraft something of use with this nice board... ;-)
Thanks, leutholl