| From: | Andy Hall |
| Date: | 20 Oct 2000 at 04:24:26 |
| Subject: | Re: Keyboard I/F |
Hello Alastair
On 19-Oct-00, you wrote:
> Yep, the mapping is built into the microcontroller firmware.
Damn it!
>> change via software, are there any keyboard adapters that do have this
>> kind of mapping (idealy with the cursor mapping too)?
>
> Ermm - well my Dart interface does, but that probably won't help. If you
> don't mind a bit of DIY there's a project on Aminet (based on a PIC)
> which does what you need. It's an example project in the EPIC package
> IIRC. It has a *really* neat way of choosing between two different
> mappings: You open up a text-editor window, press a particular key,
> and the interface 'types' a menu for you! I seem to remember that neither
> mapping did quite what I wanted, so I made some modifcations of my own.
Ugh! Electronics! There is now way I'm building anything and attaching it
to my miggy. If you ever saw my GCSE Technology project you'd now why.
And there was the time I managed to "power" my amiga from my brother's via
the serial port, when I built a null modem cable wrong :-)
> The only problem I found with it was it doesn't have any kind of timeout
> on transmission - so if the Amiga crashes so badly it stops talking to the
> interface, you can't use the keyboard to reset!
That is the same with the interface I use at the moment, and I think is the
norm for most keyboard adapters
Regards
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