Re: C64 Tower - keyboard ======================== Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:02:00 +0000 From: Robert Norris Subject: Re: C64 Tower - keyboard Good afternoon. > Please check hardware and documents sections. There is a text file > named keyb64e.txt which is what you need. It is completely hardware > solution and easier than an active interface. Well, there's a distinct possibilty that I'm completely blind, but I can't see it anywhere. :) > I have two keyboards connected to my C64 Tower. One is this hack, and > the other is AT-keyboard. They have both their advantages. I still can't see the point in the AT keyboard. It's a clever idea to use the tape port, but I would have thought that having to wedge a driver into the OS would have made it useless for most tasks. > In this hack, I used my C64's case with its keyboard as a new keyboard. > I cut and reshaped the plastic C64 case with a saw and hacksaw. Now it > looks like C128D keyboard. Bye the way, you can plug a C128D keyboard to > your C64 Tower if you make use of this keyb64e.txt modification. So it's still a 64 keyboard in a modified box? Or not? Sorry, I don't follow (maybe I needed to read the docs :) > It's better to use another OS with the Tower 64 I think. So that, there > won't be any incompatabilities with the new software. What other OS? (Sorry, but I have this wierd ability to be completely ignorant about alot of things :) > my newsserver behaves nonsense either. Thats why I use Dejanews and > Reference.com Never liked Dejanews myself, mostly because it always seemed too slow. But that could have something to do with the connection here, which flies some days but other days is a slow as a... a really slow thing. Bye! Rob. ---