Post by thread:IBM KYBD+JOYSTICK

Don't know how to do it all but these should help somewhat; the resources I've found in my searches on my current project are: Steve's PC Keyboard Info at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/steve_lawther/keybinfo.htm, has good links & info PIC Page, at http://www.arne.si/~mauricio/PIC.HTM, has software for emulating both the AT Keyboard & the AT end of things, this might be really handy for you! Fil's FAQ-Link-In Corner has the PC Keyboard FAQ v 1.00 at http://www.arne.si/~mauricio/Kbdfaq.htm (May be a newer version out there?) Interfacing the PC's keyboard, at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/8302/keybrd.htm, Motorola 68HC705 code on there for some of this, links to his Interfacing the PC page (up one level - good links on other pieces of the puzzle.) Omar Jenkins is working on a one-handed chording keyboard, at http://www.mbhs.edu/~ojenkins/wearable/fiddler.html Tim & I are working on a one-handed chording keyboard, I'll post my question on a separate post <G> And we'll have a web page up soon as Tim gets to it (I'm behind on my part, so I'm not griping!) We'll publish & GPL (or something close to that) our design once we get there, we just changed from a 16F84 to a 16C66 PIC design so I'm re-doing some design work here <G> (And the girlfriend gets seizures from fireworks, it's Independence day, so I get to listen hard for problems from M-80's going off, she's doing OK though mostly! She loves fireworks, -GO FIGURE- <VBG>, so do I) Mark, spam_OUTmwillisTakeThisOuTnwlink.com Matthew R Brown wrote: {Quote hidden}> > Does anybody have any ideas on how I could connect an C64/Atari > joystick to insert keystrokes into the IBM keyboard I/O? > > I was thinking of putting a PIC in series with the keyboard and the > motherboard. > > /-------\ /--------\ > | KYBRD |-------->| PIC |------->|COMPUTER| > \-------/ | \--------/ > | > |JOYSTICK| > Matt.

Thrustmaster WCS does that, the joystick does not. the joystick has standard analog 100K pots and 4 buttons. the other buttons are matrixed on the 4 button inputs. now the add-on WCS (Weapon throttle) plugs into the keyboard and allows re-programming of buttons on the joystick and it's buttons. The use a special group of PIC's and PAL's with eeproms to perform these functions and allow uploading from the keymap tables. On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Eric Naus wrote: {Quote hidden}> Thrustmaster joysticks do just that. > > The thrustmaster goes between the keyboard and the computer. > > That way each key on the joystick can be programmed to represent a key or > > set of keystrokes that would have been typed on the key board. > > I don't know if this gives you any ideas or not. > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Bye for now > > Eric >

> Van: Matthew R Brown <.....darkniteKILLspam@spam@global.co.za> > Aan: PICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU > Onderwerp: IBM KYBD+JOYSTICK > Datum: zaterdag 4 juli 1998 10:57 > > Does anybody have any ideas on how I could connect an C64/Atari > joystick to insert keystrokes into the IBM keyboard I/O? > > I was thinking of putting a PIC in series with the keyboard and the > motherboard. > > /-------\ /--------\ > | KYBRD |-------->| PIC |------->|COMPUTER| > \-------/ | \--------/ > | > |JOYSTICK| > Matt. Hey Matt ! You can't do this ! That's _my_ idea ;-) Yes, I'm slowly gathering information about the Keyboard protocol. But the fact that I want the keyboard _and_ the joystick functioning together (_and_ using a handy,but slow PIC, the 16C84) keeps me thinking .... Greetz, Rudy Wieser