[Coco] Bit-Banger Serial as external console?

[Stephen Pereira]

Hi Dave,

As you may have guessed by now, I did not put absolutely everything provided by Talbot into the CCF-MISC file…

PRINT is not in there.  Sorry about that, but since I do not have a vintage printer to go along with my vintage system, I didn’t put it in.

I believe the PRINT command shows up in the text of SCR 3 on page 36 of the Color Forth manual:

:  PRINT  -2  CHAN  C!  INTERPRET CR  0  CHAN  C!  ;

Of course, CHAN is not in there either… SCR 1 on page 35 of the manual:

6F  CONSTANT  CHAN

Give that a try.  Once you can print, you can get all the contents of CCF-MISC screens out and better determine what else you may be missing that’s important for you.

Good luck!.

smp
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Stephen Pereira
Bedford, NH  03110
KB1SXE


> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:52 AM, M. David Johnson <mdj at bds-soft.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Stephen -
> 
> Okay, I clearly didn't word my question properly. I apologize.
> 
> I'm generally not having any problem with printing to a text file via the Vcc BitBanger's capture tab. I do it all the time. It works just fine under DOS too.
> 
> The specific problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to print at all from Talbot's ColorForth 1.1.
> 
> I've read Section 12.2 "Printing" in the ColorForth Manual, and I've LSCR'd CCF-MISC, but ColorForth still doesn't seem to recognize the "PRINT" word.
> 
> Since Stephen Pereira did the rewrite on ColorForth, I was hoping he might point me to something I've missed.
> 
> --
> M. David Johnson
> mdj at bds-soft.com
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