Paul:

After reading some of your emails concerning home-brewed engine management
systems, I started thinking that it might be fun to create an entire glass
panel for an aircraft.

Since I know you have machines that run old MSDOS, I looked for one of my
old compilers.  I havent written any DOS graphics stuff in probably 25
years, but thought I would give it a try.
I downloaded Turbo Pascal 7 from the web, and found some compatible video
drivers from somewhere in Denmark.
It seems the old 1980s video drivers were a far cry from what is found in
modern machines. After an evening of hacking around, I got the compiler to
run on my WindowsXP machine at the c:> command prompt.

I looked at a couple of web sites for commercial glass panels and
implemented some of the features I saw into a little demo program I wrote.
Since I have no aircraft engine or sensors to tie into, I wrote a little
simulation routine which currently replaces routines which would check the
analog and/or digital ports.
I set the simulation routine to output data about once/second and display it
on the screen. I use a trig function to build some variability into the
simulated values so you can see if it is working.
None of the graphics produced are graphical images, They are all produced by
compiled mathematical functions in my program.

So if you are interested in trying it ... go to http://poplar.us/panel.zip
and download and unzip the zipped files into a temporary directory.

The executable file is 'panel.exe'
The BGI files are video drivers that worked on my Sony laptop
The CHR file is a font file for generating characters in graphics mode.

I don't have a virus checker on my old laptop, but I reinstalled XP on my
machine not long ago, so it probably is clean.

To test -  go to the temporary directory created above and run the
executable file,  Let me know if it works

Robin


Dig up an old obsolete windows computer and get DOS running.
If you need it I have it. Then I'll send you QB. Then I'll send you
the source QB code on a moving map program driven by a GPS.
Here are some screen shots.

Paul Lamar