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- The first POKE in the Write-routine
- selects which address you will writeto,
- just as in the same way as if you read
- data instead. The second POKE sets the
- parallellport for output by setting all
- the bits in the Datadirection register
- to high. The third POKE is the one that
- write the databyte in the variable
- "OutData" to the parallell port, and
- finally the last POKE selects address 7
- and therefor lits the READY-LED. As an
- example how it could look like when you
- are using the subroutines above, do I
- include these instructions.
- Adress=1:OutData=192:GOSUB WRITE
- Which writes the databyte 192 to IC3.
- Similarly do you read data:
- Adress=2:GOSUB READ:PRINT InData
- I think that this information will give
- you enough help to understand how to
- use the parallellport.Finally do I want
- to tell you that you should be careful
- when connecting this circuit to your
- computer, and are sure that there is no
- short circuits anywhere.I will also say
- that the editors of The Technocratic
- Times takes no responsibility for any
- sort of damage that could appear while
- building this circuit.
-
- SIGNED: PROCYON OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
- Commodore vs Atari in Denmark
- -----------------------------
-
- Commodore have always had a firm grip
- in the Danish buyers. The c-64 was and
- is the best selling machine in Denmark
- - ever.Luckily the Amiga has taken over
- and is starting to outsell the c-64.
- Commodore have sold about 200000 units
- of the c-64 in Denmark, since they
- started in 83/84, and about 70000
- Amiga's. And the Amiga will continue to
- sell in a lot of years ahead. Atari
- haven't sold much more than 1000 of
- their St's in Denmark, and most of them
- were bought by musicians to use with
- a midi. No one want's the St, and why
- should they. No one bothers to import
- software, there is no strong user net.
- People cannot build a big software base
- nearly for free, as with the c-64 or
- the Amiga. They have to ship there
- software over from England, and that's
- expensive. Finally, the Atari St is a
- rotten machine. So Commodore have a
- bright future in Denmark, and that
- pleases me.
-
- Jake up / Rebels 1989
-