Hello Digest readers!
EPOC Entertainer 16, the March issue, is now available from its home at the URL below. EPOC Entertainer is a magazine leaflet about games for the EPOC32 platform. Computers covered include the Oregon Scientific Osaris, the Psion Revo/Revo Plus and Diamond Mako, the Psion Series 5, 5mx and 5mx Pro, the Ericsson MC218, the Geofox One, and the Psion Series 7 and netBook. The magazine leaflet is published monthly in PDF format, as an A5 leaflet to be printed on both sides of A4 paper.
In this month's issue, there are two reviews: one of Alignment, by PocketIQ, and another of Psion's Tac Tile. Also, the programming tutorial The Small Screen continues, with a look at scrolling around a large playing field. As usual, downloads related to this month's reviews are available at the web site.
http://psion.cyningstan.org.uk/
On Sat, 25 Feb 2009, Ian Chappie wrote:
> There is a chance that this may NOT work, as the main (only) circuit-board > of a Series 7 was not *guaranteed* to be able to drive a WiFi card
> (something to do with the amount of power available to the PCMCIA socket).
Yes, the S7 and netbook can only drive 3.3V PC cards, not 5V ones. I
should also point out that only a few WiFi cards work because there's only
a few drivers in EPOC.
Aj.
Greetings!
A buzzing dude wrote:
> So, i tried a GigaWare adapter cable from Radio Shack, couldn't get it to > work. Was confused by the com port issue. Did load the driver that came
> with the cable. No dice. Has anyone used a GigaWare cable successfully?
The problem is that many(particularly cheap ones) adapters doesn't implement much or any Hardware Handshaking, and Psions NEED HW handshaking.
Same goes for serial-based Palms, for that matter.
A good suggestion, is to check that the adapter uses a FTDI chipset, as these DO support the full package of handshaking, so that all the adapter manufacturers need to do is add the actual copper trace on the PCB.
If shopping online, just download the manufacturers drivers beforehand and take a look inside the .inf file...
And if Windows offers to check 'Windows update' for a set of drivers that fit, do NOT let it do so. There has been issues with those drivers in the past...
:-)
Trygve
After poor results with some little known brands of converter I am very satisfied with my KEYSPAN converter. See www.keyspan.com. It is designed in the USA to high standards ( although assembled in China ).
Regards
John
Buzzjazz wrote:
> I see in past posts to this forum, the cable from CLOVE in UK seems > to work. And I think Keith used a Siig?
I think there was mention in a previous Digest that Clove no longer has USB/Serial cables, but I haven't checked that out.
I do have a Siig cable it won't work on my Dell desktop, but does work on my Sony laptop. Go figure.
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
Thought For The Day: When you have an argument with your spouse, don't drag things out of your mental museum.
* I actually bought a good value netbook to replace my 7 when we first * installed a WiFi network at home. I have since bought a netbook module * for my 7, but never got around to trying it with a WiFi card; I will test it
Hello,
It's the same old discussion.
When you upgrade your S7 to a netBook, then you have a netBook and the WiFi will work. I write and sent this mail with a 7Book on my WiFi network at home with WEP encryption and MAC-filter. 7Book = S7+netBook module.
Regards,
Kees.