#1281 Unable to print to file from xvic

[Mark Reed]

Am unable to print to file from xvic despite being able to do so from other emulators built at the same time.

Running VICE 3.4 on macOS Catalina 10.15.6

To reproduce: launch xvic -default . Go into F10 menu: select Printer -> Printer #4 emulation -> File system access, then check Printer #4 enable IEC device. Exit the menu and back at BASIC READY prompt type OPEN 4,4,0,"P".

Expected result: READY prompt.

Actual result: ?DEVICE NOT PRESENT ERROR. Any attempt to PRINT #4 will result in the same message.

Perform the same sequence of steps on x64sc -default and there is no error message. Furthermore, any text written via PRINT #4 will appear in the file print.dump when the emulator exits, as expected.

[gpz]

First, please use a more recent build - dqh posted a few (or you can build it yourself, of course)

Then, please try enabling virtual device traps. "iecdevice" itself apparently never worked in xvic, i dont know why. If that makes it work we can close this as a duplicate of bug #1334

[gpz]

indeed it seems to work with -virtualdevices

closing this one