[Coco] Turbo DriveWire

Earl Casper earlcasper at gmail.com
Mon May 9 02:39:53 EDT 2011


my bad

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just took a look at Earl's code in that article and, like the 230400
> bps technique, it does require that pins 1 and 2 on the bit banger
> cable be connected together.  However, his code operates at 57600 bps
> on a CoCo 3 only, and is interrupt driven.  Unfortunately, that method
> doesn't work at 230k because the overhead involved in servicing the
> interrupt is too high.
>
> Darren
>
> ---
>
> On 5/8/11, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> > This piqued my interest so I looked through the World of 68 Micro's
> > that I have here.  Found an article in Feb 1995 about doing 57.6k via
> > the bitbanger, maybe this would achieve 115k with double speed poke?
> > It is not the technique used in Darren's 230k coco3/115k coco 2 code,
> > but it's a good article nonetheless.   Did anyone ever complete a full
> > terminal program based off that article?
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Earl Casper <earlcasper at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Just to put in my two cents worth, back in the days of the 68 micros
> >> magazine I wrote an article with code for a 115k bps bitbanger project
> for
> >> the coco 2 using what I believe is the same technique. As usual I never
> >> followed up on it. - earlcasper
> >>
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