[Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

[Bob Devries]

Chad,

One way to snd an initialisation string to your printer is using the DISPLAY command, and redirecting thae output to the printer device (/P), like this:

DISPLAY 1B 35 20 >/P

If you need to have that done everytime you boot the DeskMate disk, you can put it into your STARTUP file, along with the XMODE command line to set the baud rate. Of course, the XMODE command should go first, before the DISPLAY one.

Hope that helps.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

PS: hehe, helping you with NitrOS9 is easier than helping my wife to learn English ;)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chad H 
  To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts' 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?


  Thanks you're your help with the floppy drive config/OS-9 issue everyone,
  sorry if there was any confusion.  I was finally able to strip down NitrOS9
  enough using SAVE to extract the modules and OS9Gen to get what I needed
  back into a new boot disk (which was DS 360k) and copied over the entire
  DeskMate files to that disk.  Only other issue, albeit a small one, was that
  deskmate refused to load at bootup.  SHELL had to load first before DeskMate
  would load properly....weird.  I checked the original DeskMate disk and this
  wasn't the case with it, shell didn't load until you exited DeskMate.  No
  biggy, I just type a command once at the OS9 prompt to load it.

  Now....I will see if I can figure out something on the Printer
  driver...should be a bit easier since I got this far on NitrOS9 I hope.
  Setting the Baud rate at 1200 should be easy I'm thinking but I would like
  to have the driver set a initialization ASCII string to the printer (for
  CRLF, etc.) before it prints....if this is even possible.

  - Chad e

  -----Original Message-----
  From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
  Behalf Of Gene Heskett
  Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:53 PM
  To: coco at maltedmedia.com
  Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?

  On Monday, July 26, 2010 11:49:47 pm Bob Devries did opine:

  > Chad,
  > 
  > I *think* the joystick routines are built into the VTIO module. Unlike
  > Level 2 NitrOS9, they are not a separate entity/module.

  Then I am incorrect, Bob.  Its been yonks since I last built a level 1 boot 
  disk, and so far back that Nitros9 hadn't made it back to level one 
  hardware.  That was when I last made a new boot disk for the Grass Valley 
  E-DISK emulator I had written in 1985.

  > Regards, Bob Devries
  > 
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Chad H
  >   To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
  >   Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:53 PM
  >   Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
  > 
  > 
  >   Update...  I went back and added the SHELL to the OS9Gen and it
  > finally booted.  DeskMate did load from this NitrOS9.  However, it
  > acted like there was no joystick attached.  Which NitrOS9 module deals
  > with joysticks? - Chad
  > 
  >   -----Original Message-----
  >   From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
  > [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Chad H
  >   Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:42 PM
  >   To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
  >   Subject: Re: [Coco] OS-9 Floppy / Printer configuration?
  > 
  >   Ok, I've backed up a little bit.  My current thinking tells me the
  > easiest way to get a slimmed down "OS-9" that works well with
  > Double-sided drives is going to be to take the NitrOS9 and strip out
  > the bootstrap modules I don't need.  I've been toying around with
  > saving the original bootstrap modules and then using OS9Gen to rebuild
  > the bootstrap leaving out some of the modules.  So far, I've only
  > gotten a NitrOS9 copyright screen but it goes no further.
  > 
  >   Here was the last list of original bootstrap modules...
  > 
  >   REL KRN KRNP2
  >   INIT BOOT IOMAN
  >   RBF RB1773 D0
  >   D1 D2 DD
  >   SCF VTIO COVDG
  >   TERM SCBBP P
  >   SCBBT T1 PIPEMAN
  >   PIPER PIPE CLOCK
  >   CLOCK2 SYSGO SHELL
  > 
  > 
  > 
  >   Latest OS9Gen I used included...
  >   RB1773
  >   D0
  >   VTIO
  >   TERM
  >   IOMAN
  >   RBF
  >   SCF
  >   SYSGO
  >   CLOCK
  >   CLOCK2
  >   SCBBT
  >   SCBBP
  >   COVDG
  > 
  >   This resulted in bootup to NitrOS9 logo...went no further
  > 
  >   Which modules are a must to include for proper bootup?!
  > 
  >   Thanks.
  > 
  >   - Chad
  > 
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