[comp.sys.m6809] RS232 Pak

rbourass@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Photography) (01/17/87)

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

I just bought an upgrade to a terminal program that claimed it would 
recognize and use an RS232 PAK. This was all the ad said, but when I
received the upgrade, the instructions said to put the RS232 in the
slot next to the drive card in the multipak.

PROBLEM:

My RS232 and drive card are on a Y-cable. I do not have a multipak.
The RS232 has pin 8 cut and the useless Shack Program rom pulled out
to allow it to function on the Y-cable with the drive card. It works
fine on Mikey Term and Greg Miller's new Greg-E-Term, but the above
mentioned program will not recognize or use the RS232!!!

Can anyone PLEASE give me an answer as to how I can fool the program
into thinking the RS232 card is in the slot on the multipak. The program
is highly protected so I can not break in to tell it to go to the RS232
card.

The source of my problems==>   AUTO TERM 5.0

If anyone can help, I would REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks in advance...
Richard Bourassa
University of Denver

pete@wlbreng1.UUCP (Pete Lyall) (01/21/87)

In article <2749@udenva.UUCP> rbourass@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Photography) writes:
>HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>I just bought an upgrade to a terminal program that claimed it would 
>recognize and use an RS232 PAK. This was all the ad said, but when I
>received the upgrade, the instructions said to put the RS232 in the
>slot next to the drive card in the multipak.
>
>PROBLEM:
>
>My RS232 and drive card are on a Y-cable. I do not have a multipak.
>The RS232 has pin 8 cut and the useless Shack Program rom pulled out
> ...... text removed 
>
>The source of my problems==>   AUTO TERM 5.0
>
>If anyone can help, I would REALLY appreciate it.
>
>Thanks in advance...
>Richard Bourassa
>University of Denver

I have no knowledge of AutoTerm, but why did you remove pin 8?? If
interrupts are required (possibly also how the PAK is detected as
present..), then you have disabled them. Pin 8 is tied to the IRQ line
of the 6551 chip, and I believe to the CART line on the bus..


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