Why build new software when Mach3 is already availble? If your drivers in your mac and step and direction then all you would need is a breakout board.
and a little bit of rewiring.
Dan
Originally Posted by rayb12  Hi All,
I have a MAC100 controller from Techno. Recently the old pc that we had the software on and running the controller crashed. Of course we had backups but when we restored from backup we discovered that we had only been backing up modified files (i.e. data files). So now we do not have the original software that runs the MAC100. We can't even find the original disks.
I have 2 questions to this forum:
1. Does anyone have the original software for a MAC100? And if so would you mind emailing or ftping it to me? I called Techno and they don't seem to have it anymore. The software we had was the "Techno Program/Compiler" aka "techno.exe", the "MAC100 AutoCad Interface" and the "Techno HPGL Interface" which consisted of several files.
2. How many people out there have and still use the original MAC100/MAC200 and it's dos based software? The reason for this question is, that I also own a software development company and would entertain a request to write a windows interface/translator for the MAC controllers if there were enough interest in this. It certainly would be better than having to upgrade your hardware, especially at $4k and you would be able to use your system "as is" as well as be able to use any of the newer windows based cad/cam software systems seamlessly.
Thank you in advance for your help as well as any thought, comments, replys. |