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- From: Digital Arts PD Software <DigitalA@zenecaen.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32
- Subject: Re: CD32 keyboard emulator using serial cable
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 17:00:28 GMT
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- In article: <4gi70d$ais@bignews.shef.ac.uk> secb2%teach@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Allatt MD) writes:
- >
- > 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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- YES!!!!!
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- You certainly can use the CD32 as a dummy, well sort of..
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- if you use the Weird Science NETWORK CD2 it includes a NEW!! version of SERNET which
- runs 4 Times faster than ever before.... also it include a NEW Directory Opus which allows
- you to use the NEW improved TWIN EXPRESS...
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- The NEW SERNET software has a built in EMULATOR which allows you to control the CD32 with
- the Amiga's KEYBOARD and MOUSE eg... move the AMIGA's mouse the pointer moves on the SCREEN
- of the CD32 .... pretty good a'... thus the AMiga's KEyborRd MaY type on the CD32 sReEn...
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- 17Bit Software
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- Digital Arts Amiga PD Software, Manchester UK
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- E-Mail: DigitalArts@zenecaen.demon.co.uk
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- From:
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- Darren Evans
- DigitalArts@zenecaen.demon.co.uk
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