[Coco] Hi! I'm new here!

[Bill Nobel]

Well what do you know, I had the DMP-105 and loved it, it was a great printer for the time, very slow yes, but it worked, and did what I needed.

Bill Nobel

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:15 PM, Hugo Dufort <hugo at seshat.ca> wrote:
> 
> It all depends on your printer's capabilities. I was using a very slow dot matrix printer (DMP-105) at the time.
> In some printers you can upload font definitions but I don't think it was possible on the DMP.
> The block graphics and single-line graphics printing was extremely slow, except if your line contained very few dots (in which case you could position the print head at the right spots, skipping the blanks).
> That's why I had resorted to this solution: print a line of text characters, return the carriage to the beginning of the line, switch to block graphics, then print the few accents over/under the correct letters.
> 
> Hugo
> 
> 
> 
> Le 2015-03-04 21:08, Sylvain Rousseau a écrit :
>> Hi Hugo,
>> With Color Scripsit II, I think I assigned differents CHR$() code as macro to number keys but I don't remember exactly how I did it.
>> Sylvain
>> 
>>      Le mercredi 4 mars 2015 20h43, Hugo Dufort <hugo at seshat.ca> a écrit :
>>    
>>  In my little homebrewed word processor back in 1989-91, I was printing
>> each line in 2 passes. One for the characters, and one for the accents.
>> 
>> Hugo
>> 
>> Le 2015-03-04 19:52, Sylvain Rousseau a écrit :
>>> Welcome Hugo,
>>> I'm also 41 years old and I'm from Quebec City.
>>> I'm looking to the list since many years.  I'm more a hardware than a software guy.
>>> I'm working on 2 Coco hardware projects with Kip Koon (a good friend on this list).
>>> As an French Quebecer I always want to print accented characters with my Coco3.  A long time ago I found a way to do it with Color Scripsit II but I forgot how I did it.  I want to look at it again soon.
>>> Sylvain Rousseau
>>> 
>>>       Le mardi 3 mars 2015 13h59, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>     
>>>   On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 03 March 2015 08:41:03 Marc Charbonneau wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tuesday 03 March 2015 06:17:36 Cocodemus wrote:
>>>>>>> It would be the QcoQco FEST!
>>>>>> Pronunciation instructions please. ;-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Don't bother, even in french it can't be pronounced
>>>> Chuckle, I don't speak French, but thats why I asked. ;-)
>>>> 
>>> Gene, you only need to know that in French the finals letters are mute
>>> so QcoQcoFest is basicly QCffffffffffttttppp ;)
>>> 
>>> 
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