Help needed................

[brianwilliamson]

Epicinfo.dll installed installed in the modules folder of FS1004 OK. How about we do the A/THR

[okan]

Hello Bob

I would also much appreciate if you could mail those Bible EPic documents to me as well.

Many thanks in advance

Greetings from Switzerland

Okan Sacli

web : www.a320project.ch
mail : okansacli@gmail.com

[brianwilliamson]

Well we finally got a switch to work, thanks to Bob Reeds patience and help on Messenger where we have been for the last week. The biggest frustration has been the old version of epic manual, and the lack of update etc., so I guess it will be a long learning curve.

Next will come the tricky bits, so I guess I will be asking many more questions, but as they say "patience is a virtue."

Many thanks Bob..........................................Brian W

[Matt Olieman]

Congratulatios Brian, sounds like you're on your way.....

[Bob Reed]

I will post my startup file here tonight. This seemed to take us the most time. I know there is more then one way to do this but I will post the way I do it. Try to get a list of things on here to get people started. Just setting the blasted thing up can be very trying!

[brianwilliamson]

I will also post the way I got going, which hopefully may help anybody just starting. I think the more of us put some first thoughts to paper the closer we are to getting an "epic manual of how to start" going.

Brian W.

ps. I hope RR. watches.

[brianwilliamson]

DO A NEW install of Epicenter, as per Ron's advice :
http://ifsbi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54

Get the following:

http://www.mindspring.com/~rrelect1/...earExample.zip

Unzip Straight into your C:\ and it will go into your C:\epic\projects
Before you start anything up make sure you have disconnected any Game controllers (joysticks) In Windows/ control panel and in
system/hardware/device manager........................so that windows can pick up epic as a new joystick.

THEN:
1 GO TO PROJECT ON TOP LINE OF EPICENTER (with epic plugged into usb and powered up) AND HIT: OPEN/GEAR EXAMPLE/GEAR/EXAMPLE.epj
2 .You should get an Gear Example.epl folder on screen.

3. Hit F9 and this will compile the program (check to find any errors !!)

4.Then F10 will load this into the epic memory, and you will see after it has loaded, down the bottom of Epicenter :
Active Device:USB0, currently loaded with Gear Example

5. You Should have a switch wired to an emda card or equivalent on Module 1-button 0-bit0.on your input (Emda or whatever)

6. Then in Epicenter go to TOOLS and click : Epic info ( a box with hardware info, should appear)

7.Click Buttons................and click module to show 1.

8. Push or turn on your button you have wired up and you should see a tick in the box 0-0, and also hear a beep from your computer.

9. You may then CLOSE epicenter and then go to control panel in Windows and bring up game controllers. There should now be
a EPIC USB(HID) there, and if you go into Properties/Test and there should be 2 buttons there and if you hit your switch you should see them react, hopefully !!!

10 You are then able to apply this to FS2004 as you would a normal button on a joystick.............................More to follow, hopefully.!!

Brian W.

[Ron Buchwald]

Hi All, sorry I have not been around for some time... my work has been ****......I have read the posts and for what ever reason if you are NOT using FS COMM then you are not going to get The epic system to work...Please use FS COMM... I can not say it any other way.... EPICINFO will not provide you with the needed info you will need... Pete Dowson of FSUIPC does not support IT any more... FS COMM is the perfect interface for the EPIC HARDWARE...EPICINFO... wants to use the Windows joystk interface... FS COMMM does not... I have two EPIC systems running and I never need see windows Joystk.....yes in the beginning I did use EPICINFO but found FS COMM. now I do not need windows Joystk at all....I do not worry about that. I send my EPIC buttons and such THRU FS Comm....Please look at it.. (FS COMM) you are makeing it so much hardder than it needs to be..... Please, Please, get FS COMM, by the way I don't work for robert fischer nor do I recive money from him, but He saw this comming years ago and wrote this PGM.. I am going to list my e-mail address TVRON321@AOL.COM Please if you don't need help Please don't E-Mail me..But If you are stuck ,, then feel free to ...Ron. I will help you if I can.. And yes, EPIC does work... Ron.

[Ron Buchwald]

I will also post the way I got going, which hopefully may help anybody just starting. I think the more of us put some first thoughts to paper the closer we are to getting an "epic manual of how to start" going.

Brian W.

ps. I hope RR. watches.

yes I will let ralph ( R&R) know of this .... but you are not listing to me .. GET FS COMM..... ron..

[Bob Reed]

Hi Ron.. Well I have a problem with FSComm. Number 1 is I don't like the idea of more software getting involved. Number 2 I still have to program. This means I have to learn a new way to program.. Nope took me far too long to learn what I have with EPIC EPL I am not starting from scratch. I have got EPIC to do anything I want so far with the way I am doing it. Number 3 price. I need to save money anyplace I can on this project. Now you have my reasons.... I will look at it to see how it works at some point but I have my doubts I will use it.