greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman) (05/14/89)
I just went through an amazing hassle to get my Okimate 20 to work properly with the ST. The manual that came with the printer says that it emulates the SMM804. The manual also lists a variety of control sequences to program the printer for various functions and effects. When I connected the printer, screen dumps in color wouldn't work; nor would any dumps when configured for 1280 dots per line. Further, most of the control sequences either didn't work, or did something different (typos aside). The Okimate driver that I have for Degas Elite *did* work, however, and produced nice color output. I examined the plug-n-print board, and to my great surprise, I found that the EPROM said, "31035301 *AMIGA* Q1 Rev. A". It seems that Oki was shipping Amiga EPROMS in their Atari plug-n-print kits! So I called Oki, and after spending 15 minutes explaining to the customer service rep that I *really* wanted an Atari EPROM (and not a whole 'nuther plug-n-print kit) finally got a part number and a distributor's phone number out of them. $35 and 4 weeks later, the EPROM is installed and the printer is working. Alt-Help screendumps work at 1280 dots-per-line and in color. Sounds great, right? Wrong! Now the Degas Elite drivers no longer work! I just completed a Spectrum 512 printer program, which works beautifully with the Atari EPROM. But now, I wonder how many people have the Amiga EPROM and how many have the Atari? If you could look at the EPROM on your plug-n-print board and email me I'd be most greatful. You will need to pop open the white plastic shield. The EPROM has a little white label on it. Please tell me what yours says. Oh, and if anyone knows what control sequences the Amiga EPROM responds to, I'd be very interested in that information, also. I may have to include support for both in my program (which will be released as shareware). Thanks very much, Longish .signature follows. Skip now, or don't complain. Greg Wageman DOMAIN: greg@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: ...!uunet!sjsca4!greg 1601 Technology Drive BIX: gwage San Jose, CA 95110-1397 CIS: 74016,352 (408) 437-5198 GEnie: G.WAGEMAN ------------------ "Live Free; Die Anyway." ------------------ Opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author.