ACTS5%VAXSWD@rca.COM (05/07/87)
(on his res dumps) Of course if there is a less brain-damaged or kluged way of doing this... I found it! in my printermate manual there is the following routine to send bytes directly to the printer: OUTPUT LDA $CFFF ; TURN OFF CO-RESIDENT $C800 ROMS LDA $C100 ; TURN ON THE PRINTMATE ROM LDA DATA ; PUT YOUR DATA IN REGISTER A LDX #$C1 ; SET X AND Y REGISTERS TO REFLECT LDY #$10 ; SLOT 1 JSR $C9AA ; CALL THE OUTPUT SUBROUTINE LDA $CFFF ; TURN OFF THE PRINTERMATE ROM and the best part is that it works and does echo things on the screen (like cntr-g's (bells)) however I would not expect this to work on a non printer-mate card.... Craig (post no bills) Roll