[Coco] NitrOS-9 sc6551 driver

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Wed Apr 1 23:43:06 EDT 2009


On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
> What's that DVD player thing next to the CoCo running my pak?  It  
> looks like it's running a CoCo emulator?

I noticed more than one of those. I think folks had figured out they  
could use a portable DVD player as a CoCo monitor!

> Anyway, my pak has a modified copy of the stock Deluxe RS-232 Pak  
> ROM in it.  The only thing I changed was the lowest baud rate to say  
> "HI" and it uses 115200 bps now.  Using the ROM's terminal mode, a  
> user can talk in English to the bluetooth module to change  
> parameters and get information.

Ah, gotcha.

> etc. etc. Settings are retained until you change them or reset the  
> pak.

Are those commands from the Bluetooth part itself?

> A few years ago I sold a copy to a Microsoft employee!!  I've got an  
> e-mail from him as well but never got too much in his business when  
> I replied back.

I can't wait to check it out.

		-- Allen





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