This is very interesting. I have a Pioneer LD-4200; it has a serial
port but it is a non standard one that uses a 15 pin connector. And it
uses a wired remote that I don't have.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 at 09:28, Kevin Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Here is the arduino TPDD project. I believe this is actually Brian's fork of
> the original code.
>
> https://github.com/TangentDelta/SD2TPDD
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:15 PM Scott Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I thought I had tried that, but it was giving me an EF error ... I'll try
>> again tonight. maybe i was tired when I wrote it... the contrast on my '200
>> screen is pretty low. :(
>>
>> -s
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:10 PM Greg Swallow <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You will have to open COM for input as well:
>>>
>>> 10 OPEN "COM:78N1DNI" FOR OUTPUT AS 1
>>> 15 OPEN "COM:78N1DNI" FOR INPUT AS 2
>>> 20 ON COM GOSUB 100
>>> 30 COM ON
>>> 40 REM Send seek to frame 1000
>>> 50 PRINT #1, "FR1000SE"
>>> 60 REM when the player gets there, it responds "R<CR>" via serial
>>> 70 GOTO 70
>>> 100 REM Got serial response
>>> 110 A$=INPUT #2
>>> 120 PRINT "Got ", A$
>>> 130 RETURN
>>>
>>> Or, something along those lines.
>>>
>>> Gpd Bless,
>>>
>>> GregS <><
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Scott Lawrence" <[email protected]>
>>> To: "Model 100 Discussion" <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 8:27:32 AM
>>> Subject: [M100] Serial IO from BASIC
>>>
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> So I'm working on a project; a BASIC program that talks at 4800 baud to a
>>> LaserDisc player. The commands are sent as ascii text, with a carriage
>>> return at the end, and responses are similarly a text string terminating in
>>> a CR.
>>>
>>> On my Tandy 200, I'm able to configure the port in TERM via:
>>> STAT 78N1DNI
>>>
>>> And then i can type out commands and the player works and responds with the
>>> correct responses... so I know the serial line is working in both
>>> directions as designed.
>>>
>>> In BASIC, i know i need to open the connection for INPUT and OUTPUT so that
>>> I can write stuff and read back the responses. The following code works to
>>> send out the commands, but it gets errors no matter what I try for reading
>>> in the response
>>>
>>> 10 OPEN "COM:78N1DNI" FOR OUTPUT AS 1
>>> 20 ON COM GOSUB 100
>>> 30 COM ON
>>> 40 REM Send seek to frame 1000
>>> 50 PRINT #1, "FR1000SE"
>>> 60 REM when the player gets there, it responds "R<CR>" via serial
>>> 70 GOTO 70
>>> 100 REM Got serial response
>>> 110 A$=INPUT #1
>>> 120 PRINT "Got ", A$
>>> 130 RETURN
>>>
>>> I looked around in a few online T books, but couldn't really find anything
>>> that could help me out on this one, and I'm feeling pretty stupid that me,
>>> a web applications and embedded systems engineer can't figure out a BASIC
>>> program.... It's been YEARS since I messed around with BASIC, and even then
>>> I never really did much with opening files...
>>>
>>> sidenote, "ON COM GOSUB <xxx>" ?!?! That's an awesome feature! I love that
>>> we can have interrupt-driven serial in BASIC!
>>>
>>> Side-sidenote; I also don't really have a good solution yet for saving and
>>> restoring the files but i'll probably just do serial port dumps or
>>> somesuch. ;D I know i can buy NADS or REX or something, for file offloading
>>> but this is a short-term project for Maker Faire next month, and I don't
>>> have the cash to drop on fancy stuff right now. I'll probably just throw
>>> together a serial-terminal based SD card shell using a spare arduino or
>>> something... Although I'd gladly trade my Booster Pak which i never
>>> really got working for one of those... ;D
>>>
>>> -s
>>>
>>> --
>>> Scott Lawrence
>>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott Lawrence
>> [email protected]
