[A83] Re: Interesting - comments?
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[A83] Re: Interesting - comments?
Just because it uses a parallel cable doesn't make it printer-capable.
You'd need to make a piece of hardware to interpret the TI protocol to
printer protocol.
The calculator part would be easy, as TI included a screen-dump link
command (GRAPHLINK's get screen). I made a QBasic program to get the
screen using a grey graphlink cable and display it on the computer. It
wouldn't be much harder to do one that prints it. The thing is,there
would have to be hardware to run it.
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Harper Maddox wrote:
>
> I would say that it is very feasible, since most of the homeade graphlinks
> use a sliced up parallel cable. This would be a good moneymaking scheme
> for TI.
> Personally, i thought that the gameboy printer was a silly idea, but I
> guess nintendo sold alot of those. Then again, I, unlike the other kids in
> my neighborhood, never bought a power glove for my nintendo.
>
> -harper
>
> At 06:50 PM 2/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >What do you all think about an 83/+ printer? If someone could develop
> >hardware similar to the GB printer or find a way to use the GB printer, it
> >wouldn't be that hard to ouput the mem. It would be great to print out
> >graphs during school. Any comments on how feasible this is?
> >
> >-Joel Seligstein
> >joel@basm.org
> >www.basm.org
>
>
>
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