[Coco] Test RS232 pak

Bill cwgordon at carolina.rr.com
Wed Apr 1 03:05:10 EDT 2009


Hmmmm, on my Coco 3 I get:

?PEEK(65384) 0
?PEEK(65385) 112
?PEEK(65386) 0
?PEEK(65387) 0 

on both of them.

I'm afraid there won't be any 'blind experimentation'. Unfortunately, all
those days are over.

I'm going to try the register peeks again on a Coco 2. (in the morning)

Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Roger Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:00 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Test RS232 pak
> 
> Bill...  the pak's 6551 chip should respond to PEEK commands.  You'll
> see that the 4 registers are mapped in.  That's about all you're
> going to get out of the thing if no connection to a terminal is made!
> 
> ?PEEK(65384) usually reports 0 initially
> ?PEEK(65385) usually reports 16 initially
> ?PEEK(65386) and ?PEEK(65387) should report 0 initially
> 
> Grab those RS-232 Pak docs and study before even attempting to
> experiment blindly.
> 




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