Re: CBM720 heads up

From: Steve Gray <*sjgray_at_rogers.com*> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <87390991.3737346.1420224809457.JavaMail.yahoo@jws106144.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> · sjgray_at_rogers.com

I wrote a simple CBM-II terminal program in BASIC. If anyone is interested I can dig it out and post it.
Steve
       From: A. Fachat <afachat@gmx.de>
 To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
 Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 11:43 AM
 Subject: Re: CBM720 heads up

Hi Michau,

Du you have instructions how to use the RS232 from BASIC?
I tried with a program copied from the C64, but did not succeed.

Many thanks
André

On Friday 02 January 2015 15:30:55 you wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> A. Fachat wrote:
> > However, I'm looking for a working program to test the RS232 interface. I
> > found the (two) CBM TERM program(s) - but unfortunately I have no idea how
> > they work.
> 
> You can use BASIC to open a channel and print to the RS-232 port, and
> use Hyperterminal on the PC side to see if the received characters
> match. The BASIC syntax for the RS-232 port is very similar to the C64
> syntax.
> 
> Regards,
> Michau.
> 
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