Re: [cc65] C64 Userport Serial Driver

From: Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc1web.de>
Date: 2012-06-26 17:22:31
Hi Uz,

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:00:28PM -0500, Payton Byrd wrote:
>>    Are there any plans to implement a serial driver for the userport on the
>>    C64?  I am working on a project that uses EasyFlash (thus no
>>    SwiftLink/Turbo232) and need RS232 communications.
>
> At least not by me. The problem with this approach is that the driver must
> permanently poll the user port, otherwise it will loose characters.

We had this discussion in Nov 2010:
http://www.cc65.org/mailarchive/2010-11/index.html#8972

From the two messages:
http://www.cc65.org/mailarchive/2010-11/9000.html
http://www.cc65.org/mailarchive/2010-11/9001.html
I got the notion that George Hug's "Toward 2400" source code could be
refactored as cc65 .ser driver.

A scan of the magazine in question:
http://www.csbruce.com/cbm/transactor/v9/i3/

As long as it isn't verified that it doesn't work it lingers on my
cc65-next-release-to-do list ;-)

Regards,
Oliver
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