Re: ADTPro problem - non-SSC serial cards supported?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Jim wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Well, since you mention it, if your program is running from DOS, it
> > has intercepts in place that it wants to maintain--so you shouldn't
> > use naked IN#2 and PR#3 commands; you should use ?CHR$(4)"PR#2" so
> > that DOS actually does the command, and keeps its pointers straight.
>
>
> Ah, that's interesting. Giving that a try seems to work for 40col mode,
> but not for 80col. To use the 80col card I just need to issue
>
> ?CHR$(4)"PR#3"
>
> yes? Because if I write this code:
>
> 10 ?CHR$(4)"PR#3"
> 20 ?CHR$(4)"IN#2"
> 30 GET A$
> 40 PRINT A$;
> 50 GOTO 30
>
> then it stays in 40col mode until I hit a key on the PC keyboard,
> whereupon it goes into 80col, displays the key, then nothing more.
>
> Do I need to initialise the 80col card in some other way? TEXT:HOME
> perhaps?

The PR#3 initialization should take care of that.

> In other news, I've got another serial card coming to me (sadly not an
> SSC, but it's got to be worth a try) and another 80col card - perhaps
> mine is not quite happy.
>
> The serial card is an 'Aristocard'. Google turns up nothing, which bodes
> :-)
>
> Many thanks.

Hope you get it working!

-michael

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