Re: LZ: Ideas on input


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Re: LZ: Ideas on input



Mel Tsai wrote:


> On Sat, 12 Oct 1996 15:50:28 EDT, you wrote:
> >
> >What your talking about cannot (probably) be acheived through a link port
> >alone, however with a ram expander it could possibly be done. But what's
> >the point, it's just a 128x64 screen. A mouse would be 3/4 of the size of
> >the calculator, and a touch screen is out of the question
> >
> 
> Using a mouse would be possible, but it would probably only be useful
> on a TI-92 (like you said, the 85's screen is too small).
> 
> Right now I'd have to say a touch screen is impossible.
> 
> -Mel
> 
> --
Why is a touch-screen impossible?  All it has to do is go to an external
device that sends the two coordinates to the TI link port.  Easy!
Maybe a third byte for extra data.  Then a ZShell program would decode
the data.  
Patrick
mailto: psweeney@geocities.com


> The TI-85 Memory Expansion Homepage
> http://pilot.msu.edu/user/tsaimelv/expander.htm


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