dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) (06/10/91)
Well, I haven't heard any replies to my earlier followup about QTerm on Microbee (CP/M) computers, so I decided to post this. My question : Has anyone got patches/working executable for QTerm on a Microbee system ? If not, has anyone got any information about programming I/O on a Microbee, or can anyone recommend any books on the subject. (If I have to I'll try to remember some Z80 assembler, and write the QTerm patches myself, but I have no information on using the PIO (or is it UART? - shows how little docs I have :) in the Microbee ) David T Cook | e-mail: dcook@spam.adelaide.edu.au | Phone: +61 8 228 5709 Assistant Computer Manager, Stats, Pure and Applied Maths LMG, Adelaide Uni "The wonderful thing about USENET is that anyone can express their opinion." "The worrying thing is that they _do_."
dave@ips.oz.au (Dave Horsfall) (06/11/91)
Sorry to annoy everyone (at least I changed the Distribution: to aus!) but David, are you getting my mail replies? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC dave@ips.OZ.AU ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave
rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au ( r lang) (06/13/91)
In article <834@spam.ua.oz>, dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes: > > Well, I haven't heard any replies to my earlier followup > about QTerm on Microbee (CP/M) computers, so I decided to post > this. My question : > Has anyone got patches/working executable for QTerm on a Microbee system ? I have never seen QTerm, but Kermit-80 v4.11 does have a Microbee version. > If not, has anyone got any information about programming I/O on > a Microbee, or can anyone recommend any books on the subject. Get a Microbee technical manual. > (If I have to I'll try to remember some Z80 assembler, and > write the QTerm patches myself, but I have no information > on using the PIO (or is it UART? - shows how little docs I have :) > in the Microbee ) The microbee serial port is 4 bits of the PIO - TX, RX, CTS and one other non-standard one. The other PIO bits are used for tape in, tape out, tape on/off, speaker. Programming serial routines is a real pain. Input is interrupt driven so that you don't lose characters when the keyboard is being scanned or the video screen scrolled. -- Russell Lang Email: rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au Phone: (03) 565 3460 Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Monash University, Australia