jmdavis@ihuxy.UUCP (Davis) (11/25/86)
After an underwhelming responce to my last plea for help on my problem with Toyshop I have done some testing of my own and would appreciate any corrective comments. It seems that the reason Toyshop won't work on my computer (II+ Grappler+ NEC 8023A-N) despite the fact that it is supposed to be supported by the Toyshop is due to Grappler+ pecularities. In particular it is impossible (through BASIC at least and possibly through machine language) to send a particular code to the printer. The following is a list of things that need to be done get the Grappler to output grephics. allow CHR$(7) to be passed (GRAPPLER intercepts this) set line length to 0 (Else APPLE will issue carrage return every 80 characters or so) LOOK--> change cntl-I to something else ( this is the good one since GRAPPLER uses cntl-I as its flag for messages this character is not sent to the printer cntl-I cntl-I does not send one, the most you can do is to select another character to be intercepted. This cntl-I problem supports the fact that a different thing happened almost everytime I ran the program. This is due to the character being sent for graphics after the cntl-I character configured the grappler in a different way. This is my guess after trying a program in BASIC any thoughts are welcome. Mike Davis ihnp4!ihuxy!jmdavis