Directing VCC Bitbanger to a Hardware COM Port #484
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Possible. I think this topic should be converted to a feature request. Ideally the use of something like com0com would allow the bitbanger to connect to drivewire. |
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I know that VCC can direct bitbanger output to a text file, but I don't see any way to send this data to a COM port.
Would it be feasible to send bitbanger output/input through a COM port on the host PC, similar to what Drivewire does?
Drivewire can specify a COM port and use a USB to DB9 serial adapter to connect to a Drivewire cable that plugs into the 4-pin DIN of a CoCo serial port.
I'd love to be able to setup the same cables and have VCC communicate through a COM port, connecting the Drivewire cable to a real 4-pin DIN serial device like a DMP-105 printer or the new CoCoMP3 serial device I'm developing.
The CoCoMP3 is an MP3 audio module that is controlled via the CoCo's serial port. It is still in development.
In particular, the benefit with the CoCoMP3 is it would make software development for this device far easier to test, as developers could write and test their software in VCC and be able find out if the CoCoMP3 responds to their serial commands the way they expected.
I'd think being able to communicate with real serial hardware could be useful for other CoCo products too - even just printing to a vintage dot-matrix printer like the DMP-105.
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