This should print "HELLO" to your PC printer (USB or otherwise)
As you say, the other way is to use the parallel port.
Daniele
I had seen the bit about the serial port printing on page 19 and
hadn't realised it would work for USB printers too. For some
reason, I had assumed it would only work with parallel (LPT)
printer ports: i.e. divert ser1 etc to parallel port as I hadn't
noticed any mention of USB and not made the connection, so to
speak.
Nice simple solution for the users!
Many thanks Daniele.
Dilwyn Jones
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I knew there must be a simple way of doing this - trouble is that
I've been using q-emulator for so long and never had to print from
it, I have forgotten most of what is in the manual!
I can't remember if this was possible in earlier versions of the
emulator, or if this is a new feature in version 3 just released.
I seem to think that the SER1 - SER4 setup dialogue in older versions
just let you assign PC COM ports to them, not printers. Version 3 of
the emulator adds 'Printer' to the COM ports list. So after setting
SER1 to 'Printer' rather than COM1, or whatever, all I had to do was
something like SAVE SER1 to list a BASIC program, for example. It's
transparent to the user when set up like this, anything sent to the
"QL serial port" gets diverted out to the currently set Windows
printer driver. Magic!
Actually, as you said, I don't use QemuLator often enough to remember
most of what's in the manual half the time, although I did learn a lot
about it when I was putting together QL On A Stick. My main use for it
is to use it to test software on QDOS, running old programs which fail
miserably on QPC, and to use it with Aurora SMSQ/E to test software in
256 colours mode to save firing up the Aurora (although these days
QPC2 can do 256 colour modes too).
While as Daniele said, the necessary information is on page 19 of the
version 3 manual, it doesn't explicitly mention USB printers, though
it does make it clear that SER output would go to the current Windows
printer. It's just that, not being the brightest bulb in the box, I
didn't pick up on the fact that this should work with USB printers
too. Maybe this could be mentioned in future manuals, Daniele, in case
others are as stupid as me?
Dilwyn Jones
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