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Just for fun, I wanted to see if I could get some color postscript output from the win95 printer drivers using the QMS Colorscript 230 drivers.

Setting the spool settings to Print directly to printer and disable bidirectional support because it would put 0x14 characters into the printout.

Using the "printer" centronics device and then using mame's File manager and setting the printout to a file to save out the data.


Once done, using gv (ghostview) under Ubuntu to view the output. (I had to apt install gv)






What I'd like to do is to figure out some way to have it watch the printer, when there's a long pause in the output, say 15 seconds or so, then save everything to a file, so it can run gv automatically.