antoniovillena escribió:The keyboard is not configurable via BIOS. So you must load one different bitstream for each keyboard layout.
Would users be able to edit the keyboard file, store it on the SD card and have it load up on boot? I'm trying to think of a way that people could change the function key assignments.
And the actual driver is very simple, it doesn't accept macros, so you can't simulate LOAD"" Enter for example when pressing F1.
Yes, but obviously you have a method of simulating EXTEND followed by a key with symbol pressed to get curly brackets {. That same method will work for assigning tokens to function keys in SE Basic IV. CONTROL replaces EXTEND but works in a similar way. So for example CONTROL followed by F + SYMBOL gives CLS. In that way the most commonly used keywords can be mapped to the function keys. But it would be nice if users could change them to whatever they want. I will provide a default set though.
And the Kempston port in the 2nd prototype will be optional, so people that chooses VGA port won't have Kempston port. In any case I think that a Joystick mapped in the keyboard is more confortable in many cases, you can play without connecting the phisical joystick.
Oh right, well I guess I'd better keep the Kempston support on keyboard then. I'll have another think about it.
But you can assume that people that install your OS and your layout don't want to play games so Kempston is not important. Also many games have compatibility problems with the ROM.
Well no, because when Chloe 280SE support is complete it will be a simple matter of loading up the original ROM in RAM and then all games should run as normal.
