[Coco] USB to serial cable

Tue Jun 18 15:57:33 EDT 2013

you can type first:

0 ' PUT IN ALLRAM MODE
1 RESTORE:FOR I=3584 TO 3584+24:READ A:POKE I,A:NEXT:EXEC 3584
2 DATA
26,80,142,128,0,166,132,183,255,223,167,128,140,224,0,39,5,183,255,222,32,239,28,175,57

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> Those pokes for defeating the need for CD are to the ROM area and
> wouldn't work on a CoCo 1 unless ROM had previously been copied to
> RAM.
> Does the other software you ran first put the CoCo into the all-RAM mode?
>
> Art
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> > Nope, all it does is freeze the coco. I tried running entire program, the
> > pokes first then running the print #-2 statement, and even rebooting
> > completely and running ONLY the print #-2 statement
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> > Behalf Of Robert Hermanek
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:39 PM
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] USB to serial cable
> >
> > You can probably just open HyperTerminal on your PC, and get the baud
> > rate right, standard coco expects 600,N,8,1
> >
> > Then do something on the coco that causes bytes to be written to serial,
> > either a LLIST of a "hello world" program, or else print to the printer
> > with PRINT #-2,"HELLO"
> >
> > If coco tries to PRINT or LLIST, and appears to hang forever, it is
> > waiting for CD/handshake (etc), and your cable may not be signalling
> > that.  I've used these pokes in the past to disable/disregard CD...
> >
> > 10 POKE &HA2C7,36
> > 20 POKE &HA2F7,36
> >
> > ... then try your PRINT...
> >
> > 30 PRINT #-2,"HI THERE"
> >
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