Re: I just got a IIc.....HELP?

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <5afdec$ket@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
>: crazyblake (crazyblake@earthlink.net) wrote:
>
>: : A Apple Scribe Printer with cable came with the computer, but I can't seem
>: : to get it too work. I plugged it in to Port #1 (default from my readings
>: : on this group) and nothing seems to happen when I try to print using
>: : Broderbund's Print Shop. I also tried the following BASIC program under
>: : ProDOS (v1.0.1) but nothing happens:
>
>: : 50 HOME
>: : 100 PRINT "PRINTING ON SCREEN"
>: : 110 PR#1
>: : 120 PRINT "PRINTING ON SCRIBE"
>: : 130 PR#0
>: : 140 PRINT "PRINTING ON SCREEN AGAIN"
>: : 150 END
>
>: Dunno about the Print Shop problem, aside from whether it supports the Scribe
>: or whether you have it configured properly, but I see problems with the
>: Applesoft program up there. If you use Applesoft's PR# statement instead
>: of BASIC's, you'll disconnect BASIC and bad stuff will happen. Change PR#1
>: to print chr$(4)"pr#1" and the same for PR#0 except use 0 instead of 1
>: of course.
>
>Actually, under DOS 3.3, it is DOS that gets disconnected; and under
>ProDOS, it is BASIC.SYSTEM that gets disconnected.  Under DOS 3.3, you can
>reconnect things with a CALL 1002; I think that under ProDOS you can just
>hit <RESET>...or the CALL 1002 should also work under ProDOS, unless Apple
>violated their own rules and moved that vector around.  (It wouldn't
>suprise me...).

Yep but the original poster said ProDOS 1.0.1. Note the nomenclature I use:
Applesoft is that stuff in ROM, and BASIC is the SYS program usually found
in a file named BASIC.SYSTEM. Call 1002, aka 3D0G, works in BASIC as well
as in DOS.

>Anyway, while Randy is absolutely correct about using the BASIC PR# and
>IN# commands being bad form, the program should still work properly.  It
>will just leave you in a machine state where ProDOS might not work
>properly.  For testing a printer, it should work just fine.

I'd like to try out my Scribe I got thrown in with a //c system a few months
back if anyone could tell me what cable I need and where to get a ribbon and
the thermal paper if you have to have that kind.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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