[Coco] USB to serial cable

[Arthur Flexser]

Those pokes for defeating the need for CD are to the ROM area and
wouldn't work on a CoCo 1 unless ROM had previously been copied to
RAM.
Does the other software you ran first put the CoCo into the all-RAM mode?

Art

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> Nope, all it does is freeze the coco. I tried running entire program, the
> pokes first then running the print #-2 statement, and even rebooting
> completely and running ONLY the print #-2 statement
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
> Behalf Of Robert Hermanek
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:39 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] USB to serial cable
>
> You can probably just open HyperTerminal on your PC, and get the baud
> rate right, standard coco expects 600,N,8,1
>
> Then do something on the coco that causes bytes to be written to serial,
> either a LLIST of a "hello world" program, or else print to the printer
> with PRINT #-2,"HELLO"
>
> If coco tries to PRINT or LLIST, and appears to hang forever, it is
> waiting for CD/handshake (etc), and your cable may not be signalling
> that.  I've used these pokes in the past to disable/disregard CD...
>
> 10 POKE &HA2C7,36
> 20 POKE &HA2F7,36
>
> ... then try your PRINT...
>
> 30 PRINT #-2,"HI THERE"
>
>
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