[Coco] Printing from Disk Extended Color Basic (via Drivewire)

[John W. Linville]

Indeed. The problem with patching the ROMs is lack of space. But OTOH
I don't see why someone couldn't write the DECB equivalent of a TSR
that would hook the output routines and redirect them appropriately
for BASIC. It should, indeed, be quite similar to what I did for my
thermal receipt printer support blog and tech segment on the podcast.

John

P.S. You _do_ listen to the podcast...right? We get well over a
thousand downloads a month, and yet I continue to be shocked by the
number of CoCo "regulars" who claim to have never listened...

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:23:29AM -0500, Brett Gordon wrote:
> Should be able insert new conin and conout ram vectors. Redirect to new
> code that handles -2 by sending it to dw rather than bitbanger.  pass all
> other device nos to the regular routine. sdcsos, yados, hdbdos all have dw
> vectors to call on to do the noodly stuff for you.  I think Mr. Linville
> went over the strategy in one of the podcasts about his thermal printer.
> 
> brett
> On Dec 21, 2016 9:24 PM, "Ron Klein" <ron at kdomain.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Does Drivewire supporting printing from BASIC?  I know it can be done from
> > OS-9/NitrOS9.
> >
> > Anytime I try to issue printing commands from BASIC (i.e. LLIST, PRINT #-2)
> > the Coco locks up.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Ron
> >
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