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Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II?

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"Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> wrote:
 >printing a DHGR image from an Apple IIe on an ImageWriter using a Super 
Serial Card in a cc65 program.

I guess this doesn't exist. I'm not looking for code snippets although they 
are interesting.

I was looking for the cc65 source for an end to end program that formats and 
prints DHGR images after it sets-up the printer.

Complete with escape sequences; the whole bit.

For the Apple IIe (not the IIgs) although GSPort sounds like a place to 
test.

Another way to do this (I've done this in the past) is to convert a graphic 
to a "PRN" file of printer codes mixed with bitmap data for a specific 
printer (I did this in the 90's  with various cash register printers for 
company logos, HP PCL printers, Epson Printers etc). The PRN file can then 
be streamed to the printer

I can get info for Epson info printers freely but this ImageWriter seems to 
want money for the Technical Reference Manual. I might just do the PRN file 
conversion for an Epson for now.

>has it been done in AppleSoft BASIC?

Sounds like this doesn't exist.

The simplest thing for me to do is probably to add PRN file output to 
Bmp2DHR and then write a cc65 program that streams the PRN file.

If that works well enough I can port the PRN file routine to cc65 and do 
Print Screen Memory in cc65.

I remember doing this with EGA mode back in the '80's with MS-DOS too.

But we had good documentation and other C coders.

Bill

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How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-24 06:40 -0500
  Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-24 17:04 +0000
    Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-25 05:26 -0500
      Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-28 18:16 +0000
      Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-28 19:37 +0000
  Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Christopher G. Mason" <cgm1@my-deja.com> - 2014-10-24 17:19 -0400
  Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-24 19:43 -0500
    Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2014-10-25 02:30 +0000
    Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Christopher G. Mason" <cgm1@my-deja.com> - 2014-10-24 23:01 -0400
      Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-25 05:12 -0500
      Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-28 19:20 +0000
        Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-10-28 16:24 -0500
    Re: How Should I document Printing a DHGR image on an Apple II? gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2014-10-24 21:15 -0700

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