[Coco] What would your ideal CoCo cartridge do?

[Al Hartman]

Since using modems are passe, I'd envision a high speed serial port to be 
used for Drivewire. The chip used doesn't matter as long as DW can work with 
it. An OS-9/NitrOS9 driver would be a plus.

It should be possible to write a patch to send printer output from BASIC to 
the parallel port. I think Tony DeStefano published an article in Rainbow 
about building such a port that did just that.

Ye, the Coco-Max interface was a hi-res mouse interface. Given the scarcity 
of CoCo mice, maybe a new implimentation could use USB or PS/2 mice?

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark J. Blair

> On Oct 27, 2013, at 14:29, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:
>
> * High Speed Serial port

Does it need to emulate the UART that the Deluxe RS-232 port uses, or could 
it emulate something better and incompatible like the 16550?

> * Parallel Printer Port

Is there any existing software that knows how to print to anything other 
than the built in serial port? I'm wondering if a cartridge parallel port 
would work with any existing software or just with stuff like nitros9 that a 
new driver could be written for.

> * Coco-Max Compatible Hi-Res Interface

Is that a joystick interface?



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