[Coco] Rs232. T2 and vcc

[phil pt]

I think that you going to need to be able to set the baud rare the stop
bits in order to make it work with the old bbs software.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 7:21 PM phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you developing or using a rs232 pack emulation driver?
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> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 6:11 PM edward jaquay <ejjaquay at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 17:14 phil pt <ptaylor2446 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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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