[Coco] Hi! I'm new here!

[Hugo Dufort]

Yes... it took forever to print a full-page B&W graphic or a banner, but 
it worked fine, with very few paper jams and the lines nicely aligned.
The escape codes were very easy to understand and implement in Basic.

I still have a printed ferrari picture somehere in my archives! ;) It 
was printed with my own utility that converted colors into B&W patterns 
for the printer. So many hours of printing garbage, stopping the 
printer, cursing, correcting the pokes and data, and trying again! In 
the end it was working quite fine. It could even print remnants of Pmode 
graphics in memory after you exited a Basic program.

My word processor, on the other hands, printed really fast, thanks to 
the limited use of graphics.

Hugo

Le 2015-03-04 22:23, Bill Nobel a écrit :
> Well what do you know, I had the DMP-105 and loved it, it was a great printer for the time, very slow yes, but it worked, and did what I needed.
>
> Bill Nobel
>
>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:15 PM, Hugo Dufort <hugo at seshat.ca> wrote:
>>
>> It all depends on your printer's capabilities. I was using a very slow dot matrix printer (DMP-105) at the time.
>> In some printers you can upload font definitions but I don't think it was possible on the DMP.
>> The block graphics and single-line graphics printing was extremely slow, except if your line contained very few dots (in which case you could position the print head at the right spots, skipping the blanks).
>> That's why I had resorted to this solution: print a line of text characters, return the carriage to the beginning of the line, switch to block graphics, then print the few accents over/under the correct letters.
>>
>> Hugo
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 2015-03-04 21:08, Sylvain Rousseau a écrit :
>>> Hi Hugo,
>>> With Color Scripsit II, I think I assigned differents CHR$() code as macro to number keys but I don't remember exactly how I did it.
>>> Sylvain
>>>
>>>       Le mercredi 4 mars 2015 20h43, Hugo Dufort <hugo at seshat.ca> a écrit :
>>>     
>>>   In my little homebrewed word processor back in 1989-91, I was printing
>>> each line in 2 passes. One for the characters, and one for the accents.
>>>
>>> Hugo
>>>
>>> Le 2015-03-04 19:52, Sylvain Rousseau a écrit :
>>>> Welcome Hugo,
>>>> I'm also 41 years old and I'm from Quebec City.
>>>> I'm looking to the list since many years.  I'm more a hardware than a software guy.
>>>> I'm working on 2 Coco hardware projects with Kip Koon (a good friend on this list).
>>>> As an French Quebecer I always want to print accented characters with my Coco3.  A long time ago I found a way to do it with Color Scripsit II but I forgot how I did it.  I want to look at it again soon.
>>>> Sylvain Rousseau
>>>>
>>>>        Le mardi 3 mars 2015 13h59, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>>      
>>>>    On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 03 March 2015 08:41:03 Marc Charbonneau wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tuesday 03 March 2015 06:17:36 Cocodemus wrote:
>>>>>>>> It would be the QcoQco FEST!
>>>>>>> Pronunciation instructions please. ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don't bother, even in french it can't be pronounced
>>>>> Chuckle, I don't speak French, but thats why I asked. ;-)
>>>>>
>>>> Gene, you only need to know that in French the finals letters are mute
>>>> so QcoQcoFest is basicly QCffffffffffttttppp ;)
>>>>
>>>>
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