SimpleDigitalLocomotive 0.2a4 review

The Purpose of SimpleDigitalLocomotive: controlling digital model railway locomotives and function models via the serial port (RS.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 2186K Developer: Manfred and Christian Fischer Price: $0.00 Updated: 08 Aug 2006

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The Purpose of SimpleDigitalLocomotive: controlling digital model railway locomotives and function models via the serial port (RS.422) of a Mac...

This simple program can control digital model railway systems compatible to the 6050-syntax using the serial port of a Mac. At the moment only locomotives and function models. Mac's standard serial port was the RS.422 (8-pin) instead of the PC-world's RS.232 (9-pin). After the release of the first iMac and G3 blue/white this serial port was no longer implemented by Apple. Macs of today have only USB as their standard serial interface. The Digital Interface 6050 / 6051 has its own serial port (DIN 8-pin) and is shipped with a cable RS.232-to-Digital-Interface-6051. Other digital controlling devices (for example the IB) have built in a RS.232 modem-serial port. A connection to the Mac is then possible with a standard Mac-modem-cable.

What's New:
MacOS 10.4.7 compatibility
Intellibox v1.55 compatibility, supporting now long addresses up to 16383.

Requirements:
Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2, or
Mac OS X 10.2.8 / 10.3.3 or later
USB-to-serial converter recognized by Mac OS X
Cable serial-to-DigitalControllingDevice
Model railway digital controlling device which is compatible to the so-called 6050-syntax
Supported external devices: mrkl6021/6051, IB, Selectrix (and compatible).