Fletch Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 I posted a question in an old AtariWriter thread so if you have already read that I apologize for the double question. I was messing around with AtariWriter this weekend and cannot figure out how to load a custom printer driver. I have the driver for the 1020 printer on a disk from APX but I have no idea how to load it. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Fletch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Larry Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I posted a question in an old AtariWriter thread so if you have already read that I apologize for the double question. I was messing around with AtariWriter this weekend and cannot figure out how to load a custom printer driver. I have the driver for the 1020 printer on a disk from APX but I have no idea how to load it. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Fletch You don't specify AtariWriter Plus, so I'll assume the original cartridge version. According to the AW manual, you must load the printer driver when booting. The manual doesn't specify, but that would suggest that it must be in the form of an AUTORUN.SYS file. Somewhere here I have the APX printer driver docs, but so far, I can't find it. If this doesn't work, let me know and I'll hunt some more. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Larry, Yes, its just the cartridge version. I will try to rename the driver autorun.sys and see what that gets me. I had thought about that, but always figured autorun.sys was just for BASIC. I'll give it a shot. Fletch I posted a question in an old AtariWriter thread so if you have already read that I apologize for the double question. I was messing around with AtariWriter this weekend and cannot figure out how to load a custom printer driver. I have the driver for the 1020 printer on a disk from APX but I have no idea how to load it. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Fletch You don't specify AtariWriter Plus, so I'll assume the original cartridge version. According to the AW manual, you must load the printer driver when booting. The manual doesn't specify, but that would suggest that it must be in the form of an AUTORUN.SYS file. Somewhere here I have the APX printer driver docs, but so far, I can't find it. If this doesn't work, let me know and I'll hunt some more. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted June 25, 2008 Author Share Posted June 25, 2008 Larry, Good call on the autorun.sys, worked like a champ! Thank you! Pete I posted a question in an old AtariWriter thread so if you have already read that I apologize for the double question. I was messing around with AtariWriter this weekend and cannot figure out how to load a custom printer driver. I have the driver for the 1020 printer on a disk from APX but I have no idea how to load it. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks! Fletch You don't specify AtariWriter Plus, so I'll assume the original cartridge version. According to the AW manual, you must load the printer driver when booting. The manual doesn't specify, but that would suggest that it must be in the form of an AUTORUN.SYS file. Somewhere here I have the APX printer driver docs, but so far, I can't find it. If this doesn't work, let me know and I'll hunt some more. -Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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