Re: C64 Tower - keyboard ======================== Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:38:58 +0200 (EET) From: Ilker Ficicilar Subject: Re: C64 Tower - keyboard Hello Rob, On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Norris wrote: > Good afternoon. > Well, the Sun is just set here in Turkiye. > > named keyb64e.txt which is what you need. It is completely hardware > > solution and easier than an active interface. > > I can't see it anywhere. :) > I put them in c64 tower page a couple of minutes ago. Whew, I feel I'm running on the net. > > 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. > A couple of new programs will use AT-keyboard. No Kernal patches is needed for this programs. A few people asked me to use the AT-keyboard driver in their codes. And, if I can find time I'll try to make GEOS compatable with AT-Keyboards. By the way, there are autobooter cartdridges. They can be used for initial load of the keyboard driver routine. > > 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 :) > Yes, exactly the same. Did you ever see a C128D keyboard? C128D is C128 computer in slim case with a seperate keyboard. > > 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 :) > LUnix already supports AT-Keyboard. And, in near future LUnix will have X-Windows like GUI. Btw, in case you don't know LUnix is a multitasking, unix-like OS for C64 by D. Dallmann. > > Bye! > > Rob. > see you, I'm waiting for your post concerning any trouble with the any information presented in C64 Tower Pages. ps: May I ask you something? I still have troubles with my newsservers. Would you like to announce the URL of C64 Tower page in comp.sys.cbm ? The URL is: http://newton.physics.metu.edu.tr/~filker/c64tower/ Now its time to take some sleep, it's 08:30 A.M. here. bye, Ilker Ficicilar filker@newton.physics.metu.edu.tr c068214@orca.cc.metu.edu.tr ---