Serial Port Monitor review: It simply worked (2024)

Serial Port Monitor Review

Michael Hebenstreit

3 months ago

It simply worked
I'm working on a BIOS for a Z80 computer. The only way to interface with the system is the serial interface. Unfortunately some features like the Xmodem support are very tricky to debug. There is no terminal software I have found that would log the complete communication between the remote device and the terminal software. I was already thinking about writing a minimal terminal software with this capability, but then I found Serial Port Monitor. AND IT WORKED OUT OF THE BOX. I had tried some similar software already but always met "cannot open port" issues. I know since X64 Windows serial port monitoring has become difficult - even Microsoft does not support their old Portman software anymore.

Michael Hebenstreit

3 months ago

It simply worked

I'm working on a BIOS for a Z80 computer. The only way to interface with the system is the serial interface. Unfortunately some features like the Xmodem support are very tricky to debug. There is no terminal software I have found that would log the complete communication between the remote device and the terminal software. I was already thinking about writing a minimal terminal software with this capability, but then I found Serial Port Monitor. AND IT WORKED OUT OF THE BOX. I had tried some similar software already but always met "cannot open port" issues. I know since X64 Windows serial port monitoring has become difficult - even Microsoft does not support their old Portman software anymore.