| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
We have had an Atari-ST at home for a couple of years, and it has
mostly been used for the kids to play games - I don't even know how to
log in to it ;-). Now, two thirds of the kids have left home, and it
has occurred to me that I might save space at home by using it in place
of the VT220.
The software described in note 3 looks like it might solve most of
the problems, and I have just copied the Postscript documentation
across, but I have another problem. The machine has an AZERTY keyboard,
and I am much more familiar with a QWERTY keyboard.
I am sure that I cannot get a conversion kit here. When I bought
the thing I asked if we could get one with a QWERTY keyboard, and the
salesman looked at me as if I was crazy. Does anyone know if it is
1) Possible to convert it yourself (perhaps by moving keytops and
changing a jumper wire), or
2) Possible to buy a conversion kit, and where?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1271.1 | The keys are interpreted by the TOS roms | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Sat Mar 21 1992 22:32 | 19 |
I believe that the difference between keyboard layouts is similar to DEC - that is, the keyboards are all the same internally (except for what is printed on the keycaps) and the keys are interpreted by the software. The most reliable way is to replace your "TOS Roms" with a set from the U.S. or U.K. (Use U.K. if you desire to 50hz screen, U.S. for 60hz. The US and UK also differ in the placement of "\", "|" and, of course, "#" and "�".) If you don't have it already, you should upgrade to TOS 1.4 anyway. This is a user-installable upgrade. You need to know how many ROM chips you have (6 or 2) before ordering. I'm not sure if the keycaps are arbitrarily re-arrangable, but you can try. The other possibility is that it may be possible to write a program that simply re-arranges the keys and runs as a "terminate and stay resident" program. I don't know how to do that, but a determined hacker could figure out a way. | |||||
| 1271.2 | Although I'm not a 'determined hacker' | COL01::OBERHOLZ | Beam me up, Scotty! | Mon Mar 23 1992 04:16 | 55 |
Hi,
my suggestion is: write a small C-Program, that calls the function
'Keytbl' and put it into your Auto-folder.
I used the attached code to switch my (german) keyboard to match
the northamerican keymap.
The tables describe the ASCII-codes that are processed, you might
use them and only exchange the code for the keys that come up wrong.
Regards,
Bert.
#define US_UNSHIFT_TAB \
{0,0x1B,0x31,0x32,0x33,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x30,0x2D,0x3D,8,9,\
0x71,0x77,0x65,0x72,0x74,0x79,0x75,0x69,0x6F,0x70,0x5B,0x5D,0xD,0,0x61,0x73,\
0x64,0x66,0x67,0x68,0x6A,0x6B,0x6C,0x3B,0x27,0x5C,0,0x5C,0x7A,0x78,0x63,\
0x76,0x62,0x6E,0x6D,0x2C,0x2E,0x2F,0,0,0,0x20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0,0,0,0,0,0x2D,0,0,0,0x2B,0,0,0,0,0x7F,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0x3C,0,0,0x28,0x29,0x2F,0x2A,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x31,0x32,0x33,\
0x30,0x2E,0xD,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
#define US_SHIFT_TAB \
{0,0x1B,0x21,0x40,0x23,0x24,0x25,0x5E,0x26,0x2A,0x28,0x29,0x5F,0x2B,8,9,\
0x51,0x57,0x45,0x52,0x54,0x59,0x55,0x49,0x4F,0x50,0x7B,0x7D,0xD,0,0x41,0x53,\
0x44,0x46,0x47,0x48,0x4A,0x4B,0x4C,0x3A,0x22,0x7C,0,0x7C,0x5A,0x58,0x43,\
0x56,0x42,0x4E,0x4D,0x2C,0x2E,0x3F,0,0,0,0x20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0,0,0x37,0x38,0,0x2D,0x34,0,0x36,0x2B,0,0x32,0,0x30,0x7F,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0,0,0,0,0,0,0x3E,0,0,0x28,0x29,0x2F,0x2A,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x34,0x35,0x36,\
0x31,0x32,0x33,0x30,0x2E,0xD,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
#define US_CAPSLOCK_TAB \
{0,0x1B,0x31,0x32,0x33,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x30,0x2D,0x3D,8,9,\
0x51,0x57,0x45,0x52,0x54,0x59,0x55,0x49,0x4F,0x50,0x5B,0x5D,0xD,0,0x41,0x53,\
0x44,0x46,0x47,0x48,0x4A,0x4B,0x4C,0x3B,0x27,0x5C,0,0x5C,0x5A,0x58,0x43,\
0x56,0x42,0x4E,0x4D,0x2C,0x2E,0x2F,0,0,0,0x20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0,0,0,0,0,0x2D,0,0,0,0x2B,0,0,0,0,0x7F,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\
0x3C,0,0,0x28,0x29,0x2F,0x2A,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x31,0x32,0x33,\
0x30,0x2E,0xD,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
:
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char unshift_tab [] = US_UNSHIFT_TAB;
char shift_tab [] = US_SHIFT_TAB;
char capslock_tab[] = US_CAPSLOCK_TAB;
:
:
:
Keytbl (unshift_tab, shift_tab, capslock_tab);
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| 1271.3 | uniterm has it: keyedit.prg | BERN01::RUGGIERO | Markus Ruggiero from Switzerland | Tue Mar 24 1992 02:34 | 9 |
Simon Poole has bundeled with Uniterm a little proggy that lets you
edit keymaps very easily. The output can then be saved as a special
Uniterm file or (that's the important thing for you) as a program that
goes into the AUTO folder.
Look for a thing called keyedit.prg. I am not sure if it is still in
the latetest Uniterm set.
---markus---
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| 1271.4 | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Mon Mar 30 1992 11:16 | 4 | |
Many thanks to all of for your help.
Dave
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| 1271.5 | I have a Vintage ST and had the same problem | ULYSSE::DEIGHTON | Tue Apr 14 1992 18:47 | 16 | |
re -1 Uniterm is the right approach, my venerable ST (vintage 1985) was probably one of the first in France and I use it mainly as a VTxxx replacement at home with Uniterm and I've re-mapped the keyboard to as close to QWERTY as one would need. WHACK is another alternative that I've never had the time (nor need) to install which would allow you multi-windowing......I even have an assembler program which I wrote about 7 years ago (ie two weeks after getting the system) which re-maps the keyboard and also sets the system to use 60Hz instead of 50 Hz for colour monitors.........yes Atari in their infinite wisdom shipped TOS disks which worked fine for the 70Hz black and white monitors but which assumed your were in the U.S. if you used color! If you need any help give me a bell on DTN 5695 in VBO. Nigel | |||||