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Hello folks, I am a way back Atari fanatic who just got back into programming and have a quick question. Is the 1025 printer a direct plug in on my 800 xl or is some time of adapter required? Also can anyone tell me the print command in atari assembly for my source code? Thanks and sorry for the newbie questions, I haven't touched one these since the late 80's and have forgotten a bunch.

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It is a direct plug-in with the SIO port.

 

Hello folks, I am a way back Atari fanatic who just got back into programming and have a quick question. Is the 1025 printer a direct plug in on my 800 xl or is some time of adapter required? Also can anyone tell me the print command in atari assembly for my source code? Thanks and sorry for the newbie questions, I haven't touched one these since the late 80's and have forgotten a bunch.

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The 1025 really needs a new ROM so it can support graphics. As-is it's really limited.

I thought about this too, but even the Oki equivalent couldn't do graphics. Okidata's next model I believe did though, and was 9pin (vs. 7pin). At one time I had the idea of transplanting the guts of a graphics capable Oki into the 1025 shell -- but that was a long time ago.

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Not exactly sure where my error list comes from, but as

near as I can tell error 144 equates to attempt to write

to a protected disk.

 

Seems a bit odd for a printer error? My bad is certainly

possible too, but that's the error list I've compiled from

some authority somewhere.

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On 3/1/2017 at 9:13 PM, phaeron said:

Error 144 is simply SIO device error -- it happens any time the device returns an "E" for error as the return code instead of "C" for complete.

Figured I'd pop in here.  I'm not sure if it was the order of me turning everything on/off again, or the fact my paper was almost out of the feed.. because once I pulled the paper out and re-inserted it to test something, it worked fine.  So I do think the 144 may be 'out of paper'.

 

I ran into a different issue, but I'll create a new thread for that, as I haven't been able to find one!

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give this a quick skim through, in this way you can make sure everything is where it belongs and give certain areas a quick clean up...

 

https://archive.org/details/Atari1025PrinterFieldServiceManual/mode/2up

 

Make sure both power and print switches are on

 

a can of compressed air or aeroduster can make sure no debri is in the paper out sensor gears and other places... so make sure it's online and clean...

 

lastly make sure no other device thinks it's a printer... for example  MIO/Black Box/P:R: Connection, all in one SIO device, APE, RespeQT, more than one printer powered up etc....   easy to overlook and they will step on each other.

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