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From: gjh@tybalt.caltech.edu (Greg J. Hiscott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Home-grown controllers/interfaces
Keywords: X10 controller and the 8bits
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Date: 20 Dec 88 17:34:06 GMT
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u-mderha%ug.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Max Derhak) writes:

|   About a year and a half ago, I purchased an X10 controller interface.
|   It uses RS232 to comunicate to the outside world.
|   As far as I know there
|   isn't any software written for the 8bits and the X10, and I have been too
|   busy with other things to ever get around to doing it.  I do recal that
|   an (ANTIC/ANALOG?) issue had an article on the X10.  You might try looking
|   there.

     I have written an Atari BASIC program to control the X10 Computer Interface.
I have designed it in such a way that it can be run over a modem.  It is
kind of like a BBS that controls your house.  The user can set the clock
in the interface, read the clock, send a direct command, and program a timer
event.  The only thing I need to do yet is provide a command to read timer
events from the interface memory and display them to the user.
     One of my friends has also written a controller program, but his has
a Mac-like user interface.  The user controls a pointer with the joystick
and selects commands , but he did not have as many functions implemented.

If anyone is interested in either of these two programs, let me know.  We
can probably work something out.





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