Re: [NTLK] Any other Keyboard option?

From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 01:13:13 EDT


À (At) 19:50 -0700 15/10/02, MuHammed Lonon écrivait (wrote) :
> > The Newton OS uses some proprietary information that
> > comes from the Newton
> > keyboard. In order to use other keyboards, you would
>> need drivers that would
>> adapt the keyboard dialect to the Newton OS way of
>> communicating. AFAIK,
>> there is no such driver.
>
>
>Would it be possible to get some info on this from
>NCU. It has that option that lets you use your
>desktop keyboard.....

NCU does use a different protocol when used as a keyboard.
Its protocol is described within the Newton Bowels project.

The hardware keyboard protocol is described here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010721070258/http://www.logictools.de/newton/keyboard/keyboard.html

Paul

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