Amiga Inheritance! (now what?!)

[RedWarrior]

Sorry for huge time lapse- I hope everyone on this thread originally is still alive & with us...

I'm hoping to ressurect the timetable software on these old machines - so I'm uploading a copy here for the experts to dissect.

This software needs a signal from the serial port to work properly- the information for each train platform would come in, and be updated n displayed in real time, complete with scrolltext telling you news and stay behind the yellow line =)

If there's no signal from the serial port, it just displays the train company logo.

Would anyone have an idea how I might be able to get this software to just read from a text file or something instead? Also toying with the (complicated) idea of using an arduino to send serial port signals and emulate the signal this program needs....

Hope to hear from you lot! =)
The program is PIDS... (public information display system I guess)- and looks like it might be made from Scala or something...?

[MelbourneBen]

Thanks for the upload red warrior, I'll try and check it out when I get chance and let you know what I think it terms of making it functional. Arduino looks like a possibilty but I've only done a quick google search on it so I can't say for certain

I'm always interested to here about Amiga's still being used commercially, do you know if they were still using the Amiga's up until recently? Or have they been out of use for some time?

Also interesting to hear they are used in some capacity on the Sydney monorail.

[Heiroglyph]

Have you tried a null modem and a terminal on a PC?

Having only the receiving end is going to make the traffic hard to snoop, but there is a chance that it will either send you something or it might just display the raw data you send.

Interesting find regardless.

[RedWarrior]

These were still in operation up until maybe 2 years ago or so... Now they've "upgraded" to PC's in widescreen... not nearly as easy to read or as smooth scrolltext...

=)

[RedWarrior]

I have a nullmodem device somewhere, but not the slightest clue what to do with it...

[RedWarrior]

I opened the main program file just in notepad on my pc- it looks like maybe AMOS? I thought it was Scala... Can anyone tell by looking if this might be something you could just open in an easy amos editor and fiddle with? =)  (uploaded zip file on earlier post if you want to take a look)

[yakumo9275]

binary file is amos pro derived.

[RedWarrior]

What does that mean? can it be opened & edited in any useful way? Or can you see what it's looking for on the serial port?

=)

[RedWarrior]

Any takers?

[yakumo9275]

no, its fully compiled. you cant just open and edit it. you would have to reverse engineer it with something like IDA Pro.