Posted By
MMS
on 2009-01-18
14:25:16
 |  Re: Is anyone still printing anything on the original hardware (e.g. MPS 801, SP 180 VC)?
I just read, that Geowrite could pass the outpur as postscript file, then you just needed an other computer, and the RISC CPU of the laser did the rest (BTW, nowadays there a are a lot of lasers do not have own CPU, but work done by the PC itself : this confused me a little)
So my previous post is nonsense (as old lasers all have own CPU, and postscript does not need huge file to be created).
I just recently found an article showing the troubles related to C64 postscript files, but none of them is really linked to speed of file creation, just how complex it is to manage (editing, transferring, etc).
http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/antigrav/bbt.html
Is there anyone made a try with Plus/4 + Laserprinter? It should also work, as Geos is available. The externally written program are at least 90% compatible with the plus/4 version, as mentioned previously.
Plussy has a User interface, having proper tool for RS232 connection. (I am not sure, if it is possible with C16 or not)
http://www.portcommodore.com/interfaces.php
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