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Re: Joystick Ports as Duplex Data Port

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Originally Posted by zachriggle
Has anyone written any software that converts the dashboard to a terminal (even if readonly)? There are 7 (8?) user-settable bits. 8 bits in an ASCII character (you can get by with 6, using a modified character table)... how fast is the refresh rate? Assuming it's faster than 26ms (ms = thousandths... so 40 chars\s max if limited to 26ms), you could have a relatively simple readonly text print-out of whatever you wanted.

Writing the software wouldn't be hard, especially if you used Linux (Serial port access is simpler).
If anyone out there has anything like this please post or PM it... While having a full-fledged dashboard is nice, I would much prefer a terminal type readout.

A dashboard port related question, the data transfer through it is output only, correct?