Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: C64 as a printer buffer Message-ID: <172200020@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 13:47:00 EST Article-I.D.: uxc.172200020 Posted: Sat Dec 20 13:47:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Dec-86 21:40:57 EST References: <962@ukecc.uky.csnet> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:ukecc.uky.csnet:962:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:172200020:000:1278 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton Dec 20 12:47:00 1986 dickow@ui3 says: > .....Check out the December (?) (I just loaned my copy out to someone so > I can't check it) issue of Computer Shopper. There is a first instalment > on an article to give detailed directions on how to build a hardware > interface to allow using a C64 as a printer buffer, or for other forms > of communicating with the Amiga. This could be a great boon to many an > 'C64 upgrader' such as myself. as it happens, the same ish of 'shopper contains the second of three(?) installments of an article about interfacing a C64 (or amiga!) to an ibm pc via parallel port. i heard long ago that the pc's parallel port was an inch away from being bidirectional, but never tried to close that gap. this article has instructions for making the modification, and it seems nearly trivial even to a h/w neophyte like me (disconnect one pin from ground, jumper it to unused pin on another chip). since i have an AT handy, i'm going to try my hand at building a homebrew turbo-sidecar. wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton%uiucuxc@a.cs.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%uiucuxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703 CIS: [73047,544] PLink: w hamilton