[Color Computer][Coco] DLOAD mystery

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Tue Mar 7 23:39:50 EST 2006


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Neil Morrison wrote:

> 
> Clearly it's one of those things that never got fixed, so bugs in the timing 
> are not impossible.
> 
> Neil

Actually, the DLOADM bug was fixed in the second version of Extended Basic.

Art


> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Taylor" <webmaster at coco3.com>
> 
> 
> DLOADM works fine on my system.  I'm typing it from the command prompt,
> though.  The problem I'm having is with DLOAD *or* DLOADM.  The command
> sets the delay factor to 44 for 1200bps and 44*4 for 300bps, when actually
> a delay of 41 appears to be the best match for 1200bps on all CoCos...?
> 
> If that's not the problem, and the difference in 41 and 44 doesn't really
> matter then I'm having a start bit problem, because when a 138 is sent from
> the DLOAD command, the PC recieves a 10 most of the time, and occasionally
> a 138.
> 
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