sac278@uiucuxa.Uiuc.ARPA (08/01/85)
/* Written 7:15 pm Jul 16, 1985 by toc@dadla.UUCP in uiucuxa:net.micro.atari */ /* ---------- "Looking for info on 800XL serial bu" ---------- */ ------- [Spa Fon, Line Eater] I am desirous of using the (now inexpensive) Atari 800XL as a (now inexpensive) grafix display for my CP/M machine. It's a sin, tho', to ignore the game playing potential of the Atari, so... I would like to write a program under CP/M which watches the Atari serial bus and acts as a file server, storing a virtual Atari disk under CP/M as a 90K file. A grafix program on the Atari could read commands from a file with a grafix program on my CP/M machine acting as a file. To do this I need to know much about what the 800XL is saying on it's serial bus. Anyone got any suggestions as to where I look? may all your snarks be boojums, to'c there are some good articles in some old Antic's of early 85' they describe how to make a simple modem for the 800XL parallel bus. It gives pinouts and other good info /* End of text from uiucuxa:net.micro.atari */