[Coco] Rs232. T2 and vcc

[phil pt]

Are you developing or using a rs232 pack emulation driver?



On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:11 PM edward jaquay <ejjaquay at gmail.com> wrote:

> ACIA driver for t2 or t3 already exist. What is needed is a dll to emulate
> the rs232 pak.  I am thinking of using a fork of becker.dll that pretends
> it is a crippled 6551 ACIA (skipping ability to set baud rate, stop bits,
> etc )  If that works I add missing stuff and convert the fork into
> something new so it could eventually be included with vcc.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 17:14 phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since we are out of volunteers to write a well over due rs232 pack
> driver I
> > am going to try and write it my self. I believe nothing is every
> impossible
> > when we sent a rocket to the moon using 1960’s technology. Send of all
> it’s
> > been done on the Commodore 64 running communication software to accepts
> > connections to the bbs using the standard ports. If my memory serves me
> > right the commodore runs much slower in the 64 mode then the trs-80 coco.
> >
> > The only issue is that I only know how to write programs using Visual
> Basic
> > and I am unable to read c code, so any help that you can give me to help
> > write the rs232pack dll would be greate.
> >
> > The project needs to work with the existing /t2 descriptor
> >
> > To handle data buffer I will be using timer event that is supported under
> > most of the software development packages..
> >
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