[Coco] Rs232. T2 and vcc

[edward jaquay]

Studying if drivewire4 meets my needs.  Looks like it should.

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 19:22 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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