[Coco] NitrOS-9 printing
Ed Orbea
ed.orbea at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 18:45:22 EDT 2021
I must be forgetting things. I followed Mike Rowen's set of
instructional videos "Retro Printing For Fun & Profit" to enable
printing from my the bit-banger port on my CoCo3 via a Raspberry Pi &
CUPS to a network printer.
After remembering to do the poke for 9600 baud (LOL) I am able to print
(eg. LLIST) from RS-DOS successfully
Now, I want to print from NitrOS-9. In my boot file, I have the SCF
manager, scbbp.dr and p_scbbp.dd. If I remember correctly, those 3
modules are what is needed
I then use xmode to set the baud rate (xmode /p baud =86) which should
set the '/p' device to 8 bit, 2 stop bit, 9600 baud
When I execute a simple dir command redirected to the '/p' device (i.e.
dir > /p), I get no error, the coco doesn't freeze up, but nothing is
received by the Raspberry Pi and thus nothing is sent to CUPS for printing
I assume that because the same thing happens when I forget to do the
poke in RS-DOS, that there is a baud rate/stop bit/etc problem with my
xmode command.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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