Subj : Re: Thought?
To : Charles Gutman
From : Computer Nerd Kev
Date : Wed Nov 28 2018 09:26 pm
Charles Gutman <
[email protected]> wrote:
> First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade,
> stepping on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me
> regarding something I'd like to have for the C=
> Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet?
> I have a very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on.
> I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them.
The modems will be the tool for the job, either with WiFi themselves,
or connected to a wifi router. WiFi printers connect over networking
just the same as is required for internet access. The difficulty will
be with the software. If your laser printer really is a good one, it
might support postscript printing, which is a format that's
standardised (unlike the printer-specific proprietary formats that
inkjet printers and home/cheap-office laser printers use). That
shouldn't need anything fancy like compression, so a C64 would
be able to do it with some custom software and an existing
ethernet/WiFi adapter.
Or you could rig up something like a Raspberry Pi Zero W with
a hardware interface and emulator software so that it connects
to the C64 in place of an original Commodore printer,
converting all the output from the C64 to a format that can
be sent through the normal Linux printing dirvers. Then the
Pi would use it's own built-in WiFi. The advantage with that
would be that it would work with printing functions in
existing Commodore software, and you could use all the PETSCII
characters (converted to an image for the modern printer using
the Pi).
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