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From: Macintosh Dragon on 21 Feb 2006 00:16
Hello everyone!!

I have a "Super Graphix" printer interface and was wondering what the
difference was between it and the top of the line "Super Grafix Gold"?
Back in the day I used the "Super Grafix" and it worked great and now
that I am getting a printer hooked up again for the 1st time in eons I
was just wondering if I should continue to use the regular model or go
looking for the advanced "gold" one?

Thanks for any info!!!

Douglas

P.S. Thanks to everyone who has posted responses to my c-128 programs
list, I have updated it and will repost soon!!!!
From: Paul Rosenzweig on 21 Feb 2006 08:55
Macintosh Dragon wrote:
> Hello everyone!!
>
> I have a "Super Graphix" printer interface and was wondering what the
> difference was between it and the top of the line "Super Grafix Gold"?

The biggest reason I prefer a GOLD over a JUNIOR is the GOLD
uses house power while the JUNIOR has a flimsy wire prone
to breaking tapping the cassette port. Things get real clumsy
when you need to use a JUNIOR and a printer at the ame time.

You can send printer data to a GOLD using C128 BURST mode. I
only used this capability when I had large printer graphics data
sets. The GOLD utility disk had a BURST mode program I don't
think any commercial program used the GOLDs BURST mode I / O.

The GOLD had a LARGE buffer. The buffers in
todays printer make this feature unneeded.

A SENIOR interface was sold for a while. It had few if any DIP
switches. The SENOIR was booted with its manufacturer default settings.
Alternatives were set by a printer interface command channel. Few
commercial programs were able to send commands over the interfface
command channel. Before booting your application, you had to
customize the printer settings in direct mode or store a program with
the interface commands as well as the application boot operation.

From: Robert Bernardo on 21 Feb 2006 23:51
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Paul Rosenzweig wrote:

> The biggest reason I prefer a GOLD over a JUNIOR is the GOLD
> uses house power...

Yes, an AC adapter. The Gold came in a sturdy, steel, standalone
case.

> You can send printer data to a GOLD using C128 BURST mode. I
> only used this capability when I had large printer graphics data
> sets. The GOLD utility disk had a BURST mode program I don't
> think any commercial program used the GOLDs BURST mode I / O.

GEOS had to have a printer patch driver to use the Supergraphix
Gold. A few other programs had problems with the Gold, probably due to
the interface communicating on a command channel of device 14.

> The GOLD had a LARGE buffer.

32K buffer. Also it had loadable fonts and near-letter-quality
features.

FCUG celebrating 25 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
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