[Coco] Rs232. T2 and vcc

[edward jaquay]

ACIA driver for t2 or t3 already exist. What is needed is a dll to emulate
the rs232 pak.  I am thinking of using a fork of becker.dll that pretends
it is a crippled 6551 ACIA (skipping ability to set baud rate, stop bits,
etc )  If that works I add missing stuff and convert the fork into
something new so it could eventually be included with vcc.


On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 17:14 phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since we are out of volunteers to write a well over due rs232 pack driver I
> am going to try and write it my self. I believe nothing is every impossible
> when we sent a rocket to the moon using 1960’s technology. Send of all it’s
> been done on the Commodore 64 running communication software to accepts
> connections to the bbs using the standard ports. If my memory serves me
> right the commodore runs much slower in the 64 mode then the trs-80 coco.
>
> The only issue is that I only know how to write programs using Visual Basic
> and I am unable to read c code, so any help that you can give me to help
> write the rs232pack dll would be greate.
>
> The project needs to work with the existing /t2 descriptor
>
> To handle data buffer I will be using timer event that is supported under
> most of the software development packages..
>
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