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From: Chris Ridd on 8 Apr 2010 03:25 On 2010-04-08 07:49:00 +0100, Ian McCall said: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the >> late 70s. >> I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. > > Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own > printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. > You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to > hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum > drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. Atari even had their own official printer drivers - remember GDOS? Left out of the OS when it was shipped, and was relegated to an optional extension forever after. This was a direct cause of everything needing their own drivers. Signum had quite special drivers that got good quality out of dot matrix printers, IIRC. -- Chris
From: Flavio Matani on 8 Apr 2010 06:34 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-08 07:49:00 +0100, Ian McCall said: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the > >> late 70s. > >> I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. > > > > Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own > > printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. > > You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to > > hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum > > drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. > > Atari even had their own official printer drivers - remember GDOS? Left > out of the OS when it was shipped, and was relegated to an optional > extension forever after. This was a direct cause of everything needing > their own drivers. > > Signum had quite special drivers that got good quality out of dot > matrix printers, IIRC. And Calamus did too, I seem to remember (but it was so long ago..) -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com
From: Chris Ridd on 8 Apr 2010 06:46 On 2010-04-08 11:34:45 +0100, Flavio Matani said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> On 2010-04-08 07:49:00 +0100, Ian McCall said: >> >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the >>>> late 70s. >>>> I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. >>> >>> Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own >>> printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. >>> You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to >>> hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum >>> drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. >> >> Atari even had their own official printer drivers - remember GDOS? Left >> out of the OS when it was shipped, and was relegated to an optional >> extension forever after. This was a direct cause of everything needing >> their own drivers. >> >> Signum had quite special drivers that got good quality out of dot >> matrix printers, IIRC. > > And Calamus did too, I seem to remember (but it was so long ago..) Calamus (now called iCalamus) is still around. -- Chris
From: Duncan Kennedy on 8 Apr 2010 08:01 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > I had a star LC10 - I never had to make a printer driver for anything > for the ST with that. Calamus had one, word perfect too, but other > things could print to it too, such as steinberg 24 (which printed > graphics fine) and neopaint. And you could do screenshots, so there must > have been a general one too (I ruined a ribon hitting print during > dungeon master!) 3 months ago I gave my 24-pin Swift to a friend who refuses to use his inkjet for anything other thatn photos as he still has a large box of paper! It worked with his XP box straight off. -- duncank
From: Flavio Matani on 8 Apr 2010 11:28
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-08 11:34:45 +0100, Flavio Matani said: > > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > > >> On 2010-04-08 07:49:00 +0100, Ian McCall said: > >> > >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the > >>>> late 70s. > >>>> I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. > >>> > >>> Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own > >>> printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. > >>> You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to > >>> hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum > >>> drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. > >> > >> Atari even had their own official printer drivers - remember GDOS? Left > >> out of the OS when it was shipped, and was relegated to an optional > >> extension forever after. This was a direct cause of everything needing > >> their own drivers. > >> > >> Signum had quite special drivers that got good quality out of dot > >> matrix printers, IIRC. > > > > And Calamus did too, I seem to remember (but it was so long ago..) > > Calamus (now called iCalamus) is still around. I couldn't afford it, as I remember. I seem to remember they had a demo, though, that allowed you to save and print without any other restrictions that it had to be a one-page document. My needs at the time didn't stretch beyond that... To think that I never bought it and yet (many years later) have given Microsoft some of my hard-earned for MS Office that I have hardly ever used, as I found it so slow and cumbersome and so hated it.. -- flavio matani guitar tuition http://www.flaviomatani.co.uk http://fflavio.com |