maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

this was resolved thanks again to Paul Rickards! turns out using DTR wired to host's DSR as null modem serial cables usually are doesn't work with my setup, however rewiring it to CTS instead works as intended enabling hardware flow control on the host. https://twitter.com/paulrickards/status/1394123341775126530

i know plenty of retro computer people follow me so please if you don't know the answer retweet so it can reach someone who might

from all i can tell debugging pyserial.dsr and hooking my scope up to dtr on the typewriter, the signal is being driven as i assume it should, but still messages are being clobbered no matter what which makes this plotter impossible to use as a printer

i'm at my wit's end

i'd like to think printer interfaces in the 80s didn't have random arbitrary waits programmed into them to avoid this command clobbering and that hardware flow control actually works

top is using arbitrary 3 second delays between each circle, bottom is several attempts trying to let hardware flow control tell me when i can send new commands or not which doesn't work because the commands clobber each other and several circles are skipped

@paulrickards@twitter.com how did you solve this?

how can i write out to a serial device under Linux and wait until that device is ready to receive more data? device in question is a Panasonic RK-P400C and under pyserial listening to flush, DSR and CD neither work, several commands are overwritten and skipped

of course today i know tim follin and alexander brandon and some of their works but 9 times out of 10 people will say i'm influenced by someone i never heard of before and it's the funniest shit

i love it when people are like "oh i can definitely hear tim follin influences in your music" "wow this track sounds just like alexander brandon" and i go "haha who"

i can't believe it's been 10 years...

cc @Sosowski@twitter.com 💜

Sos and I did get the chance to collaborate again after McPixel, however :) https://soundcloud.com/svetlana/hold-it?in=svetlana/sets/video-game-osts

almost 10yrs ago Sos asked me to make the soundtrack to McPixel. unfortunately due to my own circumstances i wasn't able to complete the project. in 2013, i revisited the tracks in a KNP game called "chocolate trampoline invaders"
https://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5052
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8L8JF9n8vY