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- From: sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke)
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- Subject: Re: Using PC keyboards/mice on A2000s
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 19:46:38 +0000
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- On Fri 9-Feb-1996 11:31 bob wrote:
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- b> Is it possible to use standard PC keyboards or serial mice on an Amiga
- b> such as an A2000 without altering them?
-
- For keyboards you'll need an adaptor which consists of a microcontroller with
- serial ports and a translation table that will translate PC keycodes into
- Amiga ones. Of course that requires very strange key remappings for e.g. the
- Amiga-Keys which the PC keyboards don't have.
- Mice are not much of a problem as log as you have a spare serial port and use
- only OS-compliant software. There's a driver for such mice on AmiNet.
-
- b> I'm interested in eventually getting a PC keyboard for my A2000, just so I
- b> can use the PageUp/PageDown keys. Thanks.
-
- If your software doesn't know about PageUp/PageDown keys, it will most likely
- not work. Maybe some kbd adaptor translation table will map these keys to
- Shift-Cursor combinations so they'll work at least with some editors.
-
- ttyl!
- Matthias
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