[Coco] DW and 6551

[Joe Grubbs]

Thanks Aaron. I'll probably just stick with the bit banger.

I asked because I found my old Direct Connect Modem Pak. I was probably 12 the last time I used it. And even then (late 80s) 300 baud was pretty outdated.

I haven't had a land line since 1998 when I got my first mobile phone (coincidentally from Radio Shack), so I have no use for a modem. However in lieu of finding an RS232 Pak or building one, I had a thought to gut the modem part of the DCM Pak and use just the UART. I'd mount a DB9 or DB25 connector in place of the RJ-11 and have an easy-peasy RS232 Pak.



> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:35:06 -0500
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] DW and 6551
> 
> There was a driver at one point, but I don't think anyone maintains it and
> so I don't think it was converted to the modular system we started using a
> while back.  In the time since that document was written I think it's
> realistically changed to "not supported".  Writing a driver for the 6551
> would not be very difficult but since it's so limited in speed compared to
> the bitbanger I think there is little interest.
> On Feb 10, 2015 6:30 PM, "Joe Grubbs" <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Another DW question... I noticed that the feature list for DW says that
> > 6551 support is "very limited". What does this mean exactly?
> >
> > I would check the documentation on SourceForge, but I get a 404 error and
> > a message about their content being offline for now.
> >
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