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- From: hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker compatible
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 10:25:29 GMT
- Organization: Starlink Information Systems
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- Olaf Barthel (olsen@sourcery.han.de) wrote:
-
- : This has been discussed, but there is a problem other than price: providing
- : downward compatibility to the existing mouse interface will be difficult. Not
- : every program plays by the rules and uses the operating system interface to the
- : mouse hardware interface. For some applications having an additional serial
- : port might be more useful than an option to plug in a cheap serial mouse.
-
- I would like to see a new library or device extension for the Amiga
- controller keyboard and game ports. It would consist of a new device
- called IOControllers.device and directory in Devs: called IOControllers.
- Devs:IOControllers would contain definitions for various controllers.
- The controller files would allow you to define a controller attached to
- any device (serial, parallel, scsi, whatever) and translation for it.
- With a prefs program a user could specify which keyboard, mouse or game
- controller (to be 1, 2, 3, etc) you want. You could have more than one
- keyboard or define keyboard input from the serial port and null modem
- link to another computer. You could slave a CD32 to your main Amiga and
- do keyboard input via serial to it. If the system were designed right,
- several different input definition files could share the same device. A
- mouse and game controllers could share the serial connection along with
- the keyboard input.
-
- The keyboard and input devices along with the lowlevel.library could be
- rewritten to use the new input system. This wouldn't cure the problem with
- some games but as long as the standard ports were included with 680x0
- Amigas it shouldn't matter.
-
- Chris Hall
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