Post AmPHV5oS5icDWrw2oS by wollman@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AmPBEkXGpdjvBHiqo4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-09-26T19:35:54Z
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Imagine how ridiculous it would be to write a DOS program that PRINTS, in 2024?No OS drivers! You have to program in support for every printer separately.I'm tempted
(DIR) Post #AmPBQH89z7UhSSTOQy by vxo@digipres.club
2024-09-26T19:38:06Z
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@foone I wonder just how many actually support PCL3 and you can just use that. For the longest time it was almost universal, I mean--- the go-to for a universal printer driver was just to tell your OS/application it's a Laserjet 4 in PCL personalityA bunch of inkjets also did ESC/P2Really this kinda just all continued right up until Canon figured out they could save two cents per printer by making the Windows GDI output a raster image and clock it out the parallel port
(DIR) Post #AmPBaIvw8XIXwfXPjk by Flux@wandering.shop
2024-09-26T19:39:19Z
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@foone that brings back memories. I made a fair bit of coin (well, teenager coin) in the mid-80's writing the crappy printer drivers WordPerfect needed.
(DIR) Post #AmPBimcddeOwL8YQgS by ruawhitepaw@chitter.xyz
2024-09-26T19:39:38Z
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@foone Is all modern hardware still addressable from real mode? I would imagine that a lot of stuff needs memory mappings that are completely out of range.
(DIR) Post #AmPC6RVFoJ9zn3NkLQ by CDubbs@infosec.exchange
2024-09-26T19:44:32Z
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@foone I once had to get an old hospital inventory system to work on Windows 7 that was hard-coded to print to LPT1.It wasn't terribly hard, but felt like a dumb problem to have.
(DIR) Post #AmPCFpCF5XlbscxmVs by raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-09-26T19:45:56Z
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@foone i would almost think it would be easier as most modern printers all you have to do is open a connection and stream either a postscript or PCL file and for most thats all that's needed, I know all of my brother printers are like that., even my label printer is basically just a usb serial device that takes formatted strings, lol.
(DIR) Post #AmPCPbd8NlLuhWCoYy by fere@infosec.exchange
2024-09-26T19:48:29Z
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@foone ofcourse you would only write to a dotmatrix printer. Like the Epson LX80 I had in my room in the good old days. Printed out something like 40-50 pages. Got tired of the noise and turned up the Metal music to 11 until our neighbour pounded his fist in the wall 😄😄
(DIR) Post #AmPCYlt3cJaL7O1YEy by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2024-09-26T19:48:42Z
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@foone I imagine the real problem today isn't so much supporting the printer itself, but probably printer manufacturers likely have a lot of stuff to try to lock people out from accessing the hardware directly...
(DIR) Post #AmPCrJFoIXV7ogVRj6 by wrosecrans@mstdn.social
2024-09-26T19:52:06Z
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@foone Natalie Portman meme.You are only gonna bother with printing text from DOS, right?Anakin looks away, avoiding the question, and being an image.You are only gonna bother with printing text from DOS, right?!?!?!?!
(DIR) Post #AmPDURPxsZ6uQhuoMq by larsmb@mastodon.online
2024-09-26T20:00:13Z
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@foone Via a LPT1 parallel port cable, or by implementing a USB printer driver?You could also write a driver that hijacks LPT's device driver entry and prints to a CUPS server over the network; either controlled via a .com (if you can make it fit) or, if you're feeling especially masochistic^Wnostalgic, a TSR.(TSR doesn't fit? Swap everything out to EMS/XMS! ... Excuse me, I'm getting flashbacks to my teenager years. And not the good kind.)
(DIR) Post #AmPEKYiny6z68mZyoC by simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2024-09-26T20:10:16Z
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@foone Epson ESC codes for the win 😉
(DIR) Post #AmPFzJCUgFfvpVSdSi by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-09-26T20:28:18Z
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@foone hopefully on a matrix printer. I still have one for my Atari ST, yet unsure if the color cartridge is still working. Hmmm 🤔
(DIR) Post #AmPHV5oS5icDWrw2oS by wollman@mastodon.social
2024-09-26T20:45:49Z
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@foone C:>COPY CON PRN:50 50 moveto/Times-Roman findfont 36 scalefont setfont(Hello, World!) showshowpage^Z
(DIR) Post #AmPHwZFyj9WifOuZea by billgoats@bitbang.social
2024-09-26T20:50:58Z
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@foone DOS IPP¿
(DIR) Post #AmQ6yvNEYxzlVFBbxg by steppl@mastodon.social
2024-09-27T06:23:26Z
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@fooneA number of modern printers usually do PCL5, PCL6 and/or PostScript. I darkly recall that Ghostscript might have had a DOS port.There are also exotic things out there ... like printers using Windows' GDI or fancy languages... Have fun!