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- X-Comment-To: Peter T Karlsson
- From: Pontus Berg <Pontus.Berg@p71.anet.canit.se>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 01:22:22 +0100
- Subject: Customizing JiffyDOS/128D?
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- In a message of 22 Mar 96 Peter T Karlsson wrote to All:
-
- PB>> Wait a minute here; Do you actually have different KEYMAPS for the two
- PB>> modes? I'll be damned - they are different in 128 mode!
-
- PTK> Yes, they are. It's only unfortunate that this is not available in C64
- PTK> mode, where I would need it (the thinnest underscore character is
- PTK> missing on the Swedish keyboard -- this was one of the things I was
- PTK> thinking about correcting).
-
- Out Keypatcher actually fixes this! You gat access to the underscore, the
- checkmark and an escapecharacter (Tron wanted that for sending it during
- modemtransfer... Can't remember what it was for...)
-
- PB>> But the switching takes a bit to long to be only a flip of a switch if
- PB>> you ask me!
-
- PTK> It does? Hmm. Maybe it's done in software then. I'm not sure. The
- PTK> character generator is hardwired at least, there's an extra wire from
- PTK> the keyboard connector to it on the motherboard :-)
-
- Well the actual flipping of the chars is still as fast, but the cursor is gone
- for ~half a second...
-
- PTK> (In 80 column mode, the charset is re-read by software).
-
- This was all in 40 chars mode...
-
- PB>> Tron was with me a weekend and we coded a kernal patcher, that
- PB>> installed the swedish keys into their proper places so if you have the
- PB>> default dump of a kernal, you can easily make a swedish one out of it!
-
- PTK> I don't have a dump of the JiffyDOS chip, only of my Swedish KERNAL.
-
- You could read out the JiffyKernal and patch ... With a pure patched Swedish
- kernal, you'd need no switching back to a fully english one!
-
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