Mikes73 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) 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. Edited February 6, 2017 by Mikes73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes73 Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Thanks Allan, weird thing is when I try "LPrint" in basic I can hear the printer energize, then within a few seconds error 144 appears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Is there paper in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1050 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 LPrint would be for a line in a BASIC program, if you are wanting to print out your LISTing you need to do: LIST "P: In assembler you need to do: LIST #P: You could also do: LIST "D1:BASPRO.LST" and then from DOS do COPY D1:BASPRO.LST, P: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 The 1025 really needs a new ROM so it can support graphics. As-is it's really limited. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentarian Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes73 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 (edited) Thanks so much for the replies, I have been super busy. Sorry for the late response. Update : I tried the suggestions and still getting ***ERROR - 144 ugh! Edited February 23, 2017 by Mikes73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1050 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaeron Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 (edited) 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. Edited May 28, 2020 by _The Doctor__ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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