Printing to real CBM printer.

[digita...@yahoo.ca]

I was under the impression that I could print to my Star NX-1000C from
WinVice via ZoomFloppy (usb). I can't seem to make it happen. Under
peripherals I select Printer 4 and choose Real IEC. I can communicate
with my 1541 no problem (only on device 8, bummer) but not to a serial
printer.

Has anyone been able to make this work? Is it possible? Thanks.

[Nate Lawson]

OpenCBM can print if you use the cbmctrl command line:

Send file contents to printer #4:
cbmctrl lock
cbmctrl listen 4 0
cbmctrl write filename
cbmctrl unlisten
cbmctrl unlock

However, I don't think VICE has implemented support for printers attached to OpenCBM yet. However, I haven't tried so I wouldn't know for sure.

-Nate

[digita...@yahoo.ca]

>
> OpenCBM can print if you use the cbmctrl command line:
>
>        Send file contents to printer #4:
>               cbmctrl lock
>               cbmctrl listen 4 0
>               cbmctrl write filename
>               cbmctrl unlisten
>               cbmctrl unlock
>
> However, I don't think VICE has implemented support for printers attached to OpenCBM yet. However, I haven't tried so I wouldn't know for sure.
>

Thanks for the reply. So based on this can I print from VICE to a
file and then issue the command ie.; cbmctrl write viceprintfile
to achieve the same results?

[Nate Lawson]

You'd have to do the other commands I listed also, but yes, that should work. You could put those in a batch file.

-Nate

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:05AM -0700 Nate Lawson wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 6:21 AM, digita...@yahoo.ca wrote:

> OpenCBM can print if you use the cbmctrl command line:

This sequence is even listed in the man page of cbmctrl. It is not easy
to find, though.

> However, I don't think VICE has implemented support for printers
> attached to OpenCBM yet. However, I haven't tried so I wouldn't know
> for sure.

VICE makes no distinction between printers and floppy drives. If it does
not work there, it is a bug and should be filed against VICE and/or
OpenCBM.

One question though: You do not happen to use a 32 bit VICE on a 64 bit
Windows system? In this case, VICE cannot access OpenCBM. Use a 64 bit
VICE version instead, that should work.

If you are using the right versions of VICE: Does the vice.log file give
any hints? (Please pack it up and send it to me privately, so I can have
a look into it.)

Regards,
Spiro.

--
Spiro R. Trikaliotis
http://www.trikaliotis.net/

[digita...@yahoo.ca]

>
> One question though: You do not happen to use a 32 bit VICE on a 64 bit
> Windows system? In this case, VICE cannot access OpenCBM. Use a 64 bit
> VICE version instead, that should work.

Thank you, yes it is a 64bit system (Win7). However when I downloaded
the OpenCBM and ZoomFloppy package it installed 32bit OpenCBM and
wouldn't work with my 1541. Read through the forums I found that I
need to be using 32bit Vice. So I switched and access to my 1541
worked fine. However, after researching today I realize there is a 64
bit OpenCBM package. Question I have now, how do I utilize the 64bit
files? Do I need to remove the 32bit versions? The ZoomFloppy
package had a nice installer, I do not see that for the 64 bit
package. Also, can you verify the latest OpenCBM build that I should
be using?

Thanks again!

[digita...@yahoo.ca]

In case anyone is curious, printing a to file from VICE (RAW) then
using the commands above works. I would still like however to get it
working directly from Vice. There must be a way. Thanks!!

[francesco....@jobrapido.com]

Just released "cbmage", to print (through opencbm) graphics (better if PNG) to a CBM MPS 803 directly from PC or Mac:

https://github.com/sblendorio/cbmage