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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3321.1 | LA75 doesn't need a special driver | CADSE::TERELLA | Mike Terella (DTN)287-3083 CTC2-1/C14 | Fri Jan 12 1990 15:48 | 8 |
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The CBM_1250 driver which comes in the 1.3 Extras disk works fine
on the LA75. Basically just put the LA75 into (IBM) emulator mode
and away you go. The details are elsewhere in this notes file.
Don't forget to set the Pref's serial buffer to 2048 (defaut is
512).
Mike
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| 3321.2 | How does the LA75 do a Screen Dump | KERNEL::JENKINSD | | Sat Jan 04 1992 12:26 | 13 |
| Hello,
I am a complete novice on all aspects of the Amiga.
What I want to know is what action needs to be taken to get the
printer set up on the Amiga and will I then be able to do a screen
dump from within a game to the printer without doing anything
special.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers Darrell
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| 3321.3 | Amiga printer operation (briefly) | AIDEV::LANDINGHAM | For a good prime, call: 391581 * 2^216193 - 1 | Sun Jan 05 1992 12:31 | 22 |
| My understanding of Amiga printer operation is as follows:
- AmigaDOS communicates with the printer by making calls to
the printer device ("printer.device" in SYS:DEVS)
- The printer device provides printing services in a device
independent fashion; print requests from AmigaDOS are translated
into a standard set of print command sequences which are then
passed to the printer driver code.
- The printer driver (selected in Preferences) is the device
dependent (printer-type specific) part of the chain. It translates
the device-independent print command sequences to the actual
command sequences required for a specific type of printer to
accomplish the print request.
So, to print with a specific brand/model of printer, you need a printer driver
written to support it. There are a lot of notes in this conference regarding
drivers for the LA75. Doing a "dir/title=LA75" is a good place to start
looking.
Hope this helps.
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| 3321.4 | exit | LOSPED::MCGHIE | Thank Heaven for small Murphys ! | Sun Jan 05 1992 18:56 | 4 |
| Or optionally put the Printer into 'Other' mode and use the CBM1000
(sp?) printer driver which is what I do.
Mike
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| 3321.5 | | RANGER::DBRANNON | Dave Brannon | Mon Jan 06 1992 20:37 | 13 |
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re:.2 "from within a game"
There is no support in the roms for a print screen function from the
keyboard, as far as I know. To screen capture from within a game,
you would need to have something lurking, waiting to do that based
on a keypress or some other input that isn't blocked or taken over
by the game.
There are some hardware devices that are designed to that, I think
one was called Nordic Power, don't know much about it.
Dave
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