A85: Re: Usgard improvements


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A85: Re: Usgard improvements




When you say external keyboard, do you mean another calculator's
keyboard, or a normal computer keyboard?

Justin Bosch
justin-b@juno.com

On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 04:01:21 -0500 "Dines Justesen"
<dines@resnet.gatech.edu> writes:
>
>If you new the location of the bytes used the cursor movements, this
>shouldn't be a problem. Hoever the input handler calls the key 
>handler,
>which calls get key. Get key reads keys from a buffer which is updated 
>by
>the interrupt routine. So instead of doing what you are suggesting, 
>just let
>the TSR call the normal int function, and then update the GET_KEY 
>buffer
>when the TSR is over. This would mean that the external keyboard would 
>work
>anywhere.
>
>Dines
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Norelid <fuzz@pinecrest.edu>
>To: <assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org>
>Cc: <assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 28, 1998 9:27 PM
>Subject: Re: A85: Re: Re: Re: Usgard improvements
>
>
>>
>>If this function were to be implemented, could you write to the 
>buffer?
>>could you disable the rom from writing to it automatically? what i'm
>>getting at is, could someone write a tsr program to get a byte from 
>the
>>link port and then writing that byte to the buffer, thereby 
>"tricking" the
>>calc and allowing someone to plug a keyboard into the calc. would 
>this
>>work?
>>
>>
>>FUZZ
>>Posse in effect, yo
>>-------------------
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>>
>
>

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