Re: [fuse-emulator-devel] Doubled printout (at least in +3 mode)

[Phil R. <phi...@ti...>]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:29:04 +0000
Szász Gergely <sz...@hu...> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 04:05:02PM +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> > Trying to investigate methods of printer emulation, I have tried to
> > print from the +3 version of "The Last Word" - but printout.txt
> > seems to contain doubled up characters compared to what is actually
> > in the file - so "SSppeeccttrruumm" where the file contains
> > "Spectrum", for example.
> > 
> > Have I got something mis-set that would be causing this or is it a
> > bug? This is in 1.6.0.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Phil Reynolds
> > mail: phi...@ti...
> > Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/  
> 
> Hello Phil,
> 
> The print routine try to recognise the bitmaps (OCR) and save this
> recognised text.
> 
> In the code there is a routine for graphics output (pbm), but i don't
> know (at now) how to activate...
> 
> 
> I test with a git version before 2021.11 (1.6.0) and the LLIST works
> as excepted (128K and +3 too).
> 
> Can you try LPRINT or LLIST?

Oddly enough, Tasword Plus Two seems to work fine (on a +2 emulation).
This is just one of those things I wanted to experiment with.
Unfortunately my preferred version of TLW is not available on WOS yet -
it's not dissimilar to the +3 version but was a cassette with disk
system conversion instructions in the manual. (version 2.2 possibly?)

-- 
Phil Reynolds
mail: phi...@ti...
Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/