[Coco] Bit-Banger Serial as external console?

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Just checked my old Rainbows - I think it is REMOTE2	 from November 1985 Rainbow (which is the 1983 version with extra enhancements by Scott M. Taylor) that I used in the later versions of my BBS. 
It added things like Break disable on/off, LF with CR on/off, Uppercase only/mixed case (for both send and receive, and settable separately), and scroll protection, which I definitely used, and remote INKEY$, amongst other things. I think that I do remember that to get 1200 baud, I had to set the terminal driver to 600 baud, and then use the Coco 3 double speed POKE. 

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Mar 26, 2019, at 9:03 PM, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
> There was an update to REMOTE in a later Rainbow. I used it with my Coco BBS for years - including the Coco 3, later on, at 1200 baud. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 26, 2019, at 5:34 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Other than that, I see no obvious source of incompatibility with the
>> CoCo 3, so I'd tend to suspect there might be one or more other errors
>> in entering the code, if you typed it in from the listing and assuming
>> the listing itself was rendered correctly in the Rainbow.  Can an
>> already assembled binary copy be downloaded from Rainbow on Tape/Disk
>> or something, so you could see if that one runs correctly?   Or
>> perhaps you could upload your binary to someplace people on the list
>> could access so we could see if it at least runs okay on a CoCo 1/2.
>> 
>> Art
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:17 PM Stephen Pereira
>>