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

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sat Dec 31 15:05:39 EST 2016


Melanie and John Mark Mobley wrote:
> Steps on how to list a program from the CoCos bit-banger serial:
> 1) set up the drivewire server
> 2) power on the CoCo 3
> 3) load program from drivewire
> 4) poke 65496,0: rem this should turn of turbo mode and make the serial port
> 600 baud
> 5) close the drivewire server on you PC
> 6) open a terminal program and use the serial port used by drivewire
> 7) set the baud rate to 600bps,No parity, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit
> 8) tell the terminal program to save/capture to disk/file
> 9) on the CoCo type LLIST
> 10) on the PC with the terminal program in focus hold down the spacebar
> 11) when the listing is done release the spacebar
> 12) stop capture to file.
> 13) view the file
> 14) write me back and thank me
>
> Note holding the spacebar tells the CoCo that the printer is ready.
>
> If this does not work try a different baud rate or different number of data
> bits.
>
> John Mark Mobley
>
>
>

John,

That worked with the Windows Hyperterminal program and DW HDBDOS running on a 
Coco3 without the POKE&HFFD8,0. Terminal program had the baud rate set at 1200.

Robert



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