[Coco] Printing from DW

[Ken H.]

Nick
I think you are looking for something like Juan Castro's patched version of
HDBDOS that routed LLIST and PRINT#-2 to the the DW virtual printer.
See his posts in this thread:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/77724
Ken



On Monday, October 27, 2014, <jmlaw at iprimus.com.au> wrote:

> Nick wrote:
>
>  Impressive work Jason but all I wanted was a way to do a basic text
>> print from my CoCo3.
>>
>
>  Because I do all my coding on standard CoCo hardware and software, the
>> ability to print a listing makes it a bit easier for debugging code that
>> goes beyond the screen depth.
>>
>
>  Opening the file via DSK and printing from there is fine. Just thought
>> there may have been a way via drivewire to eliminate VCC.
>>
>
>  No problem. Thanks anyway.
>>
>
> Ah right, yeah. I hadn't even considered you may need to LList as I don't
> code in asm or bas on the CoCo. Makes more sense now :)
>
> Just a couple of suggestions that may help:
>
> You can press F8 in Vcc to remove the throttle so it will print to the
> bit-banger file in seconds rather than minutes.
>
> Or you could save the program as say SAVE"LIST.TXT",A then just open the
> disk image you would usually load in Vcc in winimgtool (MESS disk image
> program) then extract LIST.TXT somewhere and open it straight up in notepad.
>
> While it takes a fair bit longer to save with the ASCII ,A option, it
> would be fewer steps, i.e. skip opening Vcc, inserting the disk, loading
> the file, creating a bit-banger file then waiting for it to print, closing
> Vcc then find the file to open in notepad etc. Though you may need the
> Cr+LF option in Vcc to view it properly, not sure.
>
> I've not used the DW4 VP yet so sorry can't be any help there.
>
> Jason
>
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