RetroPrinter Support

Hi,

I put together a monthly show on Youtube called The Amiga Show. Anyway, I though you might enjoy the first part as it features a short review of the Retro Printer, which I love.

https://youtu.be/YYfatHxAnNo

Cheers,

Ant


Great to see it working well on the Amiga — this is the next micro ...

That will be the '222' stop signal... :lol:

Actually I have no idea - electrical noise is always an issue - many of the older printers told you to turn them on and off before you turn on / off the computer


I guess I've just validated the need for the the on-off switch on top of the module ...

The only other thing I noticed on this release (I haven't checked in older releases) is that when I powered off the Electron, the RetroPrinter module seemed to pick up a few bytes of residual 'noise' from the Elk parallel port. This then got processed and printed (blank A4 page with 222 at the top ...

RWAP wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:13 am Excellent news I can add this configuration option to the main release then

Yes please. Really appreciate the good work you are doing here.

OK I seem to have figured out what the Electron is expecting the printer to do.

Try: https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1kggyq7ywvr9yv/RetroPrinter_QuadCore_Compressed.v3.8BBC.img?dl=0

I have set the auto_linefeed to CR+BUFF but you may need to set the Epson_pins to 9


Hi Rich,

I gave this a quick ...

... or change the auto_linefeed parameter to allow:

No
CR
BUFF (add line feed when right hand edge of page is reached)
CR+BUFF

(CR would be the current effect).


Extending the auto_linefeed sounds very logical, as this is then providing the same functionality as the EPSON hardware :D

Happy ...

Dug out a manual for the EPSON I used to own and found some interesting info:

http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Epson/Epson%20MX-80%20FT%20-%20Operation%20Manual.pdf

From page 27

EPSON MX-80 SWITCHES.png

Note that there are separate DIP switch options in the printer for CR + LF and ...

To recap - am I correct in thinking:

a) Printout from the BBC is fine
b) Printout from the Electron is working correctly if you use *FX 6,0


Actually the Beeb and Electron exhibit exactly the same behaviour. This is the main reason I switched over to the Electron from the Beeb when starting ...

Yes the v3.8 is not an official release as such.

Not sure what the Electron is doing to be honest. The only other option would be to increase the printer_delay setting to see if that helps.


Okay thanks HNY BTW :) , any idea of scale to try for printer_delay config?

e.g. Is it a case of ...

Can you try the v3.8 softwre image - https://www.dropbox.com/s/9buj3z15228qw87/RetroPrinter_QuadCore_Compressed.v3.8.img?dl=0

Not sure if this will help with the Electron. I can't see that the 100+ NULL characters should cause an issue.


Thanks for the suggestion but the results are the same as ...