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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
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- Subject: Re: CD32 keyboard emulator using serial cable
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 09:10:18 GMT
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- Allatt MD (secb2%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk) wrote:
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- : I have got my cd32 commected to my 500 with a serial cable, and i was wondering
- : whether it would be possible to use the keyboard on my 500, as a keyboard on the
- : cd32 using the serial cable. This port was intended for use as a keyboard
- : interface, so it should be possible. I am a competent C programmer, so I would
- : use some kind of trap to send the keypresses when a certain window was active,
- : and send the relevent information to the serial port. Theoretically, this
- : should fool the cd32 into thinking it has a keyboard attached.
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- I wish there was a hardware solution that you could use to connect a
- seral port on one machine to the keyboard port of another. You could have
- a simple program to allow you to direct all keyboard input to the other
- machine. It would have been much more simple if everyone used a standard
- 9pin RS-232 connection for keyboards and other control devices.
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- Chris Hall
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