Help!!!
I built a parallel port to buddy box tx interface cable for my Futaba 5UAF for use with the FMS 7.0 simulator. I used a circuit from this web site:
http://www.tmac.asn.au/fms_free_flight_simulator.htm
The test program shows that the cable works fine on my old Packard Bell Pentium 60mhz with Windows 95, but that old PC is way too slow to run FMS 7.0.
My Dell P3 866mhz with Windows ME runs FMS 7.0 just fine with my Logictech Wingman Extreme joystick plugged into the USB port. But I can't get the PC or FMS to see the parallel port interface cable at all. I've been told that the parallel cable SHOULD work with Windows ME........but nobody has been able to verify for sure that a FMS parallel interface cable WILL work with Windows ME. Can anybody out there verify this one way or the other?
Do I need a different electronic circuit design for a parallel to Futaba buddy box tx interface cable to work with FMS 7.0?
Or does Windows ME deal with parallel ports differently than Windows 95?
Any ideas how to make FMS 7.0 work with a ME parallel port?
Thanks!