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I think I will shelve this for now. I may consider a parallel to SCSI interface at some point and try again.

Walid

Microsoft Macro Assembler 5.1 and Turbo Pascal 5.5 work just fine when set up on a zip drive.
Microsoft QBasic also works great although it is interpreted.

Walid

Well, I got my Xircom adapter in today's mail, so I went ahead and modified my extra printer port sidecar for bidirectionality and LPT2 and it passed the test. However, I noticed that when I fired up the PCjR with the Xircom adapter connected to LPT2, then that port was not recognized. So what I end...

Hi.
I noticed that when JRconfig is running, I am unable to access the high resolution SCREEN modes such as mode 6 for example under Cartridge BASIC. Is that a known issue and is there a solution to it?

Walid

OK you got me fired :) I located a Xircom parallel adapter on ebay and I made an offer for it. Asking price is $56 but I think I can get it for cheaper. I actually do have an extra printer port sidecar, so I will modify it for LPT2 and make it bidirectional per your excellent instructions, and this ...

I have been using baud rates of 19200 so far without any issues, and this is more than sufficient for telnet activity. I mostly am interested in telnet so I can connect to BBS's out there, and I have a couple that I regularly visit. I looked at the Xircom adapter, and it does not have a pass-through...

Hi. Has anyone here ever succeeded in getting a parallel port CDROM drive to work on the PCjr? After reading about using a parallel port Zip drive on this forum, I bought the Palmzip driver and got my Zip drive to work (albeit a bit slow) which allowed me to use it a hard drive and install a bunch o...

I see that the requirements for running the telnet client are not exactly commonplace, but there is an alternative if you happen to have a Linux box. Linux allows you to connect a remote console via the PC's serial port and run an independent session that way, and so all one has to do (after some mi...

Hi. It looks like the telnet link is not working. Is that project still alive?

Walid