Subj : Re: Thought? To : Charles Gutman From : Computer Nerd Kev Date : Wed Nov 28 2018 09:26 pm Charles Gutman wrote: > First off, Please forgive me if I'm raining on someone's parade, > stepping on toes, whatever, but a thought just occurred to me > regarding something I'd like to have for the C= > Has anyone manufactured a Wi-Fi printer adapter for the commie yet? > I have a very nice Wi-Fi laser printer that I want to run GEOS on. > I tried a search but only found modems and I already have them. The modems will be the tool for the job, either with WiFi themselves, or connected to a wifi router. WiFi printers connect over networking just the same as is required for internet access. The difficulty will be with the software. If your laser printer really is a good one, it might support postscript printing, which is a format that's standardised (unlike the printer-specific proprietary formats that inkjet printers and home/cheap-office laser printers use). That shouldn't need anything fancy like compression, so a C64 would be able to do it with some custom software and an existing ethernet/WiFi adapter. Or you could rig up something like a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a hardware interface and emulator software so that it connects to the C64 in place of an original Commodore printer, converting all the output from the C64 to a format that can be sent through the normal Linux printing dirvers. Then the Pi would use it's own built-in WiFi. The advantage with that would be that it would work with printing functions in existing Commodore software, and you could use all the PETSCII characters (converted to an image for the modern printer using the Pi). -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _# --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .