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Grex Hardware Item 178: MBM5 + debug card = true?
Entered by lizzk on Fri Aug 24 14:59:57 UTC 2001:

Port 80 with MBM5?
I'm using MBM5 and a debugcard which is monitoring port80/84,
any way to output values to it without extensive programming?

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by mdw on Sat Aug 25 01:48:53 2001:

I assume you don't mean TCP/IP port 80.  What is MBM5?  Have you tried
using DOS's "debug", which has commands to diddle with I/O ports? What
exactly are you trying to do anyways?

#2 of 4 by gull on Sat Aug 25 16:42:31 2001:

I'm guessing MBM5 is Motherboard Monitor 5, a temperature and voltage 
monitoring program that runs under Windows.

#3 of 4 by mdw on Sun Aug 26 20:32:36 2001:

Does it have some sort of programming interface or what?

For IBM PC architecture machines, port 80 was used for outputting post
codes - generally to debug hardware during system initialization.  I
don't know of any reason why you'd expect them to be useful for
debugging a windows application - generally, by that time you have
*much* better resources to interact with the user, like the video
display.

#4 of 4 by gull on Mon Aug 27 15:58:33 2001:

The only programming interface it has that I know of is a shared memory area
that other programs can access to get sensor data.

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