wrote:
>I have a little question: I know that you can connect a teletype to the
>RS232 on the userport. You also can set the port to 50 baud, 5 bit with
>1 Startbit and 2 Stopbits.

Note that you'll need hardware to convert the userport's TTL levels into
either RS232 levels or current loop signalling, depending on what the
teletype requires.

>Is it possible to redirect all text that ist normally shown on the
>monitor to the teletype and use it as a printer? I woould like to run
>some text adventures over the C64 on the teletype for Maker Faire.
>
>Since the C64 still has the capability to operate with TTY that should
>be possible.

If need to do this on a Commodore 64 then you'll nned to hack up the game
in some way to use the serial port.  As mentioned in other posts you might
be able to use BASIC's CMD to redirect the game's output to the serial
port, but there's no command for redirecting input.  As I recall the
early Infocom games for the C64 used the standard kernal I/O routines,
and it's not too hard to hack the later Infocom games to also use them,
so it wouldn't be that difficult of a hack.  Still you'll need to know
6502 assembly.

If you're just trying to a get a text adventure to work a on teletype
then your best bet would be use one of the Infocom Z-machine emulators
(eg. Frotz) on some sort of Linux, Windows or even MS-DOS computer with
a standard RS232 serial port.  You may still need some sort of hardware
to convert standard RS232 levels to the current loop signalling many
teletypes used.

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