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printing on the dragon

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:32 pm
by wgoodf
well i found a printer cable for the dragon on ebay and you know what?

it all worked with an old HP i had. no messing, no fussing - it just worked.

i admit i am surprised by that.
a simple LLIST and off it went.
hmm i wonder about the graphic codes...

ahh - this is fun!

main thing tho - the cable and the printer port work. next is the centronics gender changer to see if i can get any serial type goodness going on through that port.
telnet awaits i tells ya!

Re: printing on the dragon

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:52 pm
by wgoodf
HA!

ok - actually it just prints again again again on the same line.hmm not quite the success i had thought.

Re: printing on the dragon

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:19 am
by sixxie
Try POKE &H14A,2 ?

Re: printing on the dragon

Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:34 pm
by wgoodf
that worked a treat - so what went on there with that poke then?

as much as i am revisiting a lot of the old hardware i played with when i was wee, i lack lots of knowledge in this area. so what did it do :?:

Re: printing on the dragon

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:09 am
by sixxie
It sets the amount of bytes to print at EOL to 2, which includes a LF character. I looked it up here: http://www.grempc.demon.co.uk/dragon/info/.

Re: printing on the dragon

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:53 pm
by wgoodf
i had spotted that site and that page as i used the monitor pinouts info - as far as the rest?

well i am much too dumb to follow all that!
thank heavens for forums,

thanks
again