A8 / RS-232 pinout ?

[ATARIeric]

is a standard RS-232 cable pin out the same as on the A8 controller ports ? i do have a gender changer for my cable. thanx, Eric

[Shawn Jefferson]

You mean the joystick ports? No!

[ATARIeric]

thankyou, i was curious and i didnt want to rip out of package to test

 

i do have the joystick extension cables

[dinosaur]

The only way to get RS-232 I/O from an Atari 8 bit is with the use of

additional hardware.The most common are:

 

Atari 850

ICD P:R: Connection

ICD MIO

CSS Black Box

SWP ATR-8000

 

These use the SIO bus or the parallel bus interface (PBI)

 

You can interface RS-232 I/O from the joystick ports,but you must

build a device called an RVerter.This was homemade,never offered

commercially. I can't find the URL for it,but a search of XLSearch or

Google should find it.If you can't find it,PM me and I'll send you the

text file on how to build one+ the R: Handler file.

[dinosaur]

Pardon my mistake,the RVerter is an SIO device also.

My error.

[dinosaur]

Here is the RVerter text file and R:Handler:

rverter.zip

[cas]

Hi,

 

Roland Buehler from ABBUC Regional Stuttgart published an RS-232 for the Cartridge Port. See (german) documentation at http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/APG...ArgsSeriellCart

( we might find someone to translate this if anyone is interested).

 

I also have (somewhere) a commercial Terminalsoftware for the Atari 800 with an RS-232 cable for the Joystick port. So it should be possible to do simple serial communication over the Joystick port(s).

 

Best regards

 

Carsten Strotmann

[dinosaur]

The short-lived Canadian magazine , ROM, described a simple

joystick interface,using a diode. This was used to transfer

files from the 8bit to the ST.

 

I couldn't get it to work.