Anyone still uses EPIC-ISA? Honestly, I am way behind with the information regarding to EPIC. Eventhough, I bought it in 1998.. Which means, I never get started on programming any keybuttons, displays, or etc. The only thing I did was surface by taking look at it and get the idea how it works. Why, I have not done anything with EPIC? It's because, I dedicated most time at my school work which is most important. Also I took a lot of time renovating my cockpit... changing cockpit perference from B727, 757 then B767-400, wiring, modling, sanding and etc. Technically, I have forgotten about EPIC for a while by not not keep up to date with it. So until then, I am about to get done with my cockpit, wiring, molding and etc. This is when I start to take epic out of the box wrapped with anti-static bag. Insterting it in PCI-slot of my computer, running EPIC and FSCommunicator program. All of suddenly I am reciving a lot of error messages which I was unable to figure out what went wrong. So I went through old notes, EPIC manual and everything. I find that I had followed procedures correctly. And yet, still unable to find out. So, what I did was going through website on EPIC-ISA related issues and I found out that that EPIC-ISA would not work with windows 2000, eventually wont detect any along channels. :-( So I had to degrade windows 2000 into windows 98. I talked with Robert Fischer (SP) the FSCommunicator crearor, and I was also told, that EPIC probablly wouldn't work with EPICIO.dll, and FSCommunicator requries EPICIP.dll to run-- x( And thing last thing, I just found out it wouldn't detect data coming FS2004.}( Now, this is the lesson I am going to learn. If I get to work with technologies, I should always keep eyes on updates. Anyway, I am doing now is trying to find out if anyone with ISA has experienced same thing regarding to EPIC ISA? what or how do you keep EPIC-ISA running on today date?, would there be some kind of add ons or patches to get ISA updated? so I can have it running with FSCommunicator and FS2004. Or would you, ISA is becoming worthless to use as of now? What would you suggest me to do with ISA? Yes, I have heard about USB, but, I am still unsure about getting EPIC-USB, because I hear they are having some codes problems.. But the postive thing about them is that they are most convenient to use, by unplugging USB from one computer and to another another instead of getting it slotted. Unfortunately, what can I say? my budget would not allow me, since I have spend so much $$ on christmas for my families. All, I need to do is just continue using ISA so I can start learning how to understand program language, and maybe do few tests with componets or circuits that I build. here's information about my computer:My Computer: 800Mhz, 254 SSDRAM OS: Windows 98 Second Edition3rd Party/Game Program: WideClient/server Project Magenta/FS2002Let me know soon

Yeah... well... Get FSBUS...It

You really can't compare a programmable interrupt controller to FSBUS... you can simulate every system on the aircraft with an EPIC card... not possible with FSBUS.

That's true Roberto, Mitch is right... and whats more, I spend a lot of money on EPIC modules, so I am gonna make my money worth on it.

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Also, I heard some components for FSBUS is hard to find... isnt it true. Question here: Would it be possible to run FSBUS and EPIC on a seprate compuer using same kind FS2002? would it cause any confilts?Lemme know

Hi Tuomas,>Plus fsbus is a work in progress and Dirk's personal project ->there are bugs and it is evolving, stuff might change later on>etc.. - it is not a "product" like EPIC or GoFlight stuff.Often you get more support from "personal projects" than what some companies do for their products. (This is meant in a general sense. I don't know how the support for EPIC is, so please don't get me wrong here)Being active in the open source arena, you probably know this too, right Tuomas :-)Personal projects don't depend on sales. Its mostly idealism. And often, support is much better, although not guaranted.Manuel

>Also, I heard some components for FSBUS is hard to find...>isnt it true.I guess the problem is that some components are common in Europe, while not available (under the same name) in the US. For example the transistors. But when you have a list which european type corrensponds to a US available type, then FSBUS shouldn't be a problem... I think.Manuel

Better question. Who wants to buy one cheap?:)

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Manuel wrote:>In my own project, I'm gonna use LUA as an embedded scripting>language. >(Its real easy to learn :-)You've intrigued me. Where can I find more info on "LUA"? Thanks.-Leo

Hi Leo,>>In my own project, I'm gonna use LUA as an embedded>scripting>>language. >>(Its real easy to learn :-)>>>You've intrigued me. Where can I find more info on "LUA"?>Thanks.http://www.lua.orgBe sure to get the Lua Reference Manual http://www.lua.org/ftp/refman-5.0.pdfand the draft for the Lua Book:http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/luabook1.pdfMore helpful stuff with tutorials and such is available on their Wiki pages: http://lua-users.org/wiki/Lua is released under the MIT license, so its free.I think its easy to learn, both from the lua side and also implementing the hooks inside C or C++ programs.It took me less than two days from downloading the books to having my app callable from lua :-)Manuel

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